Talk / Ethics
Are we Designing, or is Design Designing Us?
Jane Wong
A provocative and interactive talk that unravels the current state of interaction design with
audience participation
Over the last decade, we’ve accelerated how people live and work through new services, tools and methods. We created delight, connectivity and convenience in places we didn’t expect. We gave birth to real AI personas and internet deepfakes. And now in 2020, we have a chance to look back on our progress with to ask ourselves a simple question: is this what we imagined? Did we design it, or did *design* design us here instead? In a time where design is widely embraced, what forces drive and compel us to design “better” or in the “best” way? What is our role tomorrow when design today wavers between service and commodity? Polling the audience...
About the speaker
Jane Wong
I am an Associate Creative Director at frog. I’m driven by how the tangible can meet the digital
world, and how the impact of data, new technology, media and interactions continue to shape our social
environments. Today, I work at the intersection of culture, space and technology to design future
experiences for people that scale from the environmental to the intimate, from work to play. I’ve had
the pleasure of collaborating in diverse global industries, pushing brands and companies into
near-future and speculative territory.
Alongside frog, I am an Adjunct Professor at the School
of Visual Arts and sit on the UX Advisory Board for the US non-profit Ad Council. I am a frequent
Advisor at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and design critic at major New York City
design institutions.