After reading Henry Jenkins’ great overview of the ongoing Anonymous vs Scientology saga, I thought I’d watch Mark Bunker’s YouTube plea to Anonymous in which he encourages legal and peaceful tactics in the pursuit of the chruch/cult’s ruination. What I actually found most interesting about Bunker’s video is how, at the 4:37 mark, he mentions links he’s included in the video’s description and then manages to point exactly at the UI elements needed to reveal those links.
Couple interesting things happening here: Interface is influencing content. Content is now invested in unchanging interface. The inevitable adoption of this practice by other users. The emergence of design practices aimed at encouraging more of this type of behavior.
Interactive designers will frequently talk about the spatial organization of an interface. A strong spatial organization provides users with a kinesthetic understanding of where information is situated on- and off-screen, enabling users to thoughtlessly begin moving towards elements prior to locating them visually. But I don’t think any designer has ever considered the implications of an interface’s spatial organization on users who become the content.
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