and then, i ended up speculating

Unmasking the effects of engagement-centric interface design on political polarization with the measure of speculative interventional artefacts and micro interactions addressing Twitter/X app mechanisms.

What happens to social interactions in times when individuals create their own perceptions of reality? When digital technologies are embedded in the physical world? Where these phygital worlds are individual, visible to some and invisible to others? Where expression is not certain to be perceived naturally?

A speculative design experiment on an operating system, centered on human intention — without distraction, without triggers, without manipulative behavioral psychology methods.

Building upon the idea of the conversational navigation from my project iOS Y, in this course I extended the idea to a full conversational OS. What was navigation between apps became the deconstruction of apps themselves into a connected mesh of services. The project included a prototype that was evaluated on a small set of participants on its impact on perceived control, distraction and agency.

If our OS became conversational, if our agents became manipulative, how would this change our interactions, the digital economy, our language and behaviour? Are my thoughts and actions in the digital space really still MY thoughts and actions? Where do we draw the line between our self and our augmented self? How does this effect us culturally? An investigation through situated encounters in the Berlin of 2035.