Caution: Dangerous Design

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Although technology design improves our lifestyle efficiently, it could bring us dangerous damages. Apple is one of the best technology design companies around the world. Their consumers have a wide range from youth to elders who will use more than one of Apple’s products, such as iPod, iTouch, iPad, iPhone, Macbook, and more. It is incredible how human can create such technical designs to improve our efficiency and touch screens, which connects us closer to technology. However, technology designs decrease physical interaction in society, and could dangerously become one of our addictions.

The constant growth of technology design creates less opportunity for physical interaction; social lives become more and more available online, but less in society. iPhone has multiple applications and twenty-four seven Wi-Fi. Other than iPhone, iTouch and iPad has similar functions. The design of putting on earphones to listen to music or searching the Web while taking a bus creates a barrier between humans. We gradually have a closer relationship with technology designs than with human beings.   

Worse than having relationship problems is constantly sticking to our technology products because of its comforting designs for human. For example, the touch screen design is one of the great accomplishments through technology. The Macbook touch pad design is overly convenient with multiple short cuts through finger movements. Furthermore, technology design can become an addiction. We might start to rely on those technical designs more than we should. Sadly, we will never be able to notice what is happening in our surrounding physically. And less and less quality time with our family because everyone is so busy using their iPhones or other tech designs.

Technology design improves our society and efficiency in life, but we still need to maintain our physical interaction with each other.