Technology around us is becoming increasingly complex and this affects my work as a designer of products. Most designers choose to suppress this complexity by making products simple and intelligible for users. While this is perfectly sensible, the alternative seems at least as interesting: What would happen if we would augment the complexity of technology rather than suppress it?
Intelligent products would become even more difficult to deconstruct and analyze so people would need alternative ways of relating to their possessions. Throughout history people have done this by building a lyrical understanding of their environment rather than a rational one. A phenomenon we have come to call ...
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