Digital Garbage

Thesis

Thesis Statement

Graphic design negatively influences people's perceptions through what I call “Digital Garbage.” By engaging in recognition training, through interactive games we can learn to identify and counteract deceptive designs and commercial brands to maintain control of our own decisions and actions.

Main Game Set

The game is used as a medium to raise users' awareness of privacy and dark patterns. Interactive game is a product of the combination of traditional board games and interactive technology, combining the best of both worlds. While board games offer the possibility of social interaction and reflection as a group, interactive technology offers new and interesting possibilities.

Game Set

The game have 5 main elements:

The game board
Character stands
Challenge card
Dark pattern cards
Data assets

Characters are created from the different roles players play in the online environment, such as an online shopper, a social media user, a video game player. In the first level, players need to be able to recognize digital garbage and know how to avoid falling into their traps in any possible situation. In this way, players will immediately improve their privacy in the short term.

When player step on red frame; Draw a challenge card with a scenario. Players must give out protection card to stay here, there are also reference on the card with dp . When player step on blue frame; Draw a dark pattern card, in the middle of the game board, a video related to the action on the card will pop up, and play need to react with that follow the instruction.