### Name of the critical service:
Interface Detournement
Tired of business jargon and unnavigable services ? Come to do an Interface Détournement using the browser developer tool.
Redesign, add some parody and poetry to your favorite bull-shit website !
Duration: 15mins
### Service Log
SCP Incoming:
http://etherbox.local:9001/p/SCP.flynn.md
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### LONG DESC OF THE SERVICE
### Motivation of the critical service:
• capitalism as sorcery (Isabelle Stengers) : we are under the black magic of capitalism interface making
• we have the feeling that some words are impose to us, conseauently we are reclaiming a power of saying/naming
### Goal/Description ofa situation at hand/Methods of Observation:
- Unpacking an interface, fixed our browsing speed and Live redesign of an interface using the browser developer tools.
- Study the layout by removing all the content
- Play with the interface content, add some humour, irony to it.
### Tools of Observations
Browser developer tools to edit html live
Browser extension used to delete html content :
-for Google chrome : Page Eraser
# Outcome
• Detournement
• Satire
• Pastiche / Parody / Imitation
• Hoax
Relevant Materials: Example of an interface detournement on the dropbox website :
Example of a interface template study by Henrik Jan Grievink :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hendrikjangrievink/sets/72157614340281527
Tips for CSS manipulation:
• Transformation of elements:
• Text-transformation
1.HOW TO CHOOSE A WEBSITE ?
1.Discuss relations/problems with software and choose a particular case study based on that Criteria for choosing the website :
* related to content : bull-shit jargon, problematic rhetoric, unnecessary content interesting to reframe
* related to the interface : unreadabillity, problems of orientation/disorientation, interface
2.Take one of the big five website : Apple, FB, Twitter, Amazon, Google
3.Take a news website : Le soir / New York Times
2.WHAT IS OUR OBSERVATION SITE : THE WEB PAGE
1.What is a web page -> an interface visualizing resources, the conten