Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness Black Michael L.
Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness Black Michael L. This fascinating cultural history of the personal computer explains how user-friendly design allows tech…
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Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness Black Michael L.
This fascinating cultural history of the personal computer explains how user-friendly design allows tech companies to build systems that we cannot understand.Modern personal computers are easy to use, and their welcoming, user-friendly interfaces encourage us to see them as designed for our individual benefit. Black revisits early debates from hobbyist newsletters, computing magazines, user manuals, and advertisements about how personal computers could be seen as usable and useful by the average person. Rarely, however, do these interfaces invite us to consider how our individual uses support the broader political and economic strategies of their designers.In Transparent Designs, Michael L.
Black examines how early personal computers from the Tandy TRS-80 and Commodore PET to the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh were marketed to an American public that was
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