disclaimer—These ideas are intentionally weird!

Our professor encouraged us to embrace the dark side (Vader style), so these ideas are definitely meant to be taken with a grain of salt and a little humor!

We are always watching you.

The goal for this project was to come up with a "dark design" for a particular subject and push it as far as we could while still making the project believable. I decided it would be interesting to tackle the future of religion and tithing. The basic idea is that in the future you would put in a contact lens that would use augmented reality to monitor your actions and make suggestions on how to live a better life. A person can earn points and experience based on their actions and speak with a councelor who could set specific personalized goals. The service is all "donation" based like any church would be and would periodically ask you for a donation. 

Defense against the dark arts

In the second part of this quarter we were tasked to come up with a defense against any dark design tactics. Our group decided to tackle the retail and super-market environments in an attempt to get the consumer to make more informed and intelligent purchases.