Resumen de Failing to Sense the Future: From Design to the Proactionary Test Drive

Cameron Tonkinwise

• Humans design things to make up for their failings. Despite our pervasive reliance on these products, design remains underappreciated and misunderstood. The process of designing products materializes time by directing users to act in particular ways in relation to certain anticipated futures. However, the process of designing is changing, as designers shift from producing a series of industrial artifacts to the ongoing designing of morphing interactive digital platforms. Rather than failure being something to be avoided, interaction design treats reality as an ongoing experiment with radical potentiality, though at dangerous political cost.