Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces

Explore a Stanford seminar on designing digital interfaces to enhance users' sense of agency over their time spent online. Delve into Kai Lukoff's research on addressing problematic mobile app usage, particularly on YouTube. Learn about the limitations of screen time reduction tools and discover alternative approaches focused on improving content quality rather than quantity. Examine the development and field testing of SwitchTube, an app designed to give users more control over their YouTube experience. Gain insights into the importance of user agency in digital interface design and its potential to address user frustrations without necessarily reducing screen time. Understand the speaker's background in human-centered research and his contributions to redesigning features for major social media platforms to improve digital wellbeing.