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Designing Experiences in an ADHD Culture

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Susan Price Firecat Studio
Description Attention Deficit Disorder is increasingly recognized as a cultural adaptation to information barrage. How can experience designers cope with distractability and lack of attention? What do we need to be doing, or not doing, to continue to connect with users amid all the noise? Is there an ADD upside?
Questions
Answered
  1. Are we all becoming ADHD-like? Why (or why not)?
  2. Why do ADHD cultural effects matter so much in web/online design?
  3. What can we do to counterbalance our ADHD tendencies, and those of our audiences/users/communities?
  4. Should we worry about these effects on a personal level?
  5. Is there an upside to ADHD cultural effects?
  6. What's the downside, really, to ADHD? Won't the important stuff surface anyway?
  7. I've noticed ADHD tendencies increasing in myself and others. Why is that?
  8. Isn't there an actual identified gene associated with ADHD?
  9. How are social networking communities affected by this trend?
  10. How can we use this knowledge to create designs that work better for everyone?
Level Advanced
Category Web / Interface Design