Weekly 7

For my project, I am focusing on a fictional community of ghosts, specifically mischievous ghosts. Although the users are imaginary, I’m still trying to use the same design process that I do for my UX projects. I’m considering their identity, personalities, motivations, and pain points. From there, I will be building based on a set of these imaginary assumptions I came up with. Even though my website does not explicitly support social justice, the concept of designing for ghosts while considering their needs is a metaphor for designing for those who are often overlooked and underrepresented. I’m approaching the ghost users similar to human users, by not generalizing them as “ghosts” and instead focusing on a more specific niche (“mischievous ghosts”). In my imagination, I believe these ghosts have large diversity, especially considering their eternal existence. Unfortunately, while my website would bring joy to the ghosts, it would consequently have a negative impact on the poor humans. On the other hand, humans engage in predatorial activities such as hunting animals and even ghosts as a result of our human-centric beliefs. Creating a ghost-centric website would remove the power from humans and distribute it back to beings other than humans.