Design Pattern - Revision history

Tom at 05:15, 12 April 2024

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Tom: /* Barriers and Locks */

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‎Barriers and Locks

Tom at 22:55, 3 February 2024

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Tom: /* Components of the Pattern Language */

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‎Components of the Pattern Language

Tom: /* In conclusion */

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‎In conclusion

Tom: /* Introduction */

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‎Introduction

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‎Introduction

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‎Introduction

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‎Simple Truths

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 This is an old fashioned view of privacy encompassing just private spaces and private data. As with any new technology the internet has expanded the view of many existing concepts, and privacy is one of those. This book and this article consider only the traditional (130 year old) view of privacy, including the "right to be let alone" described in  [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html “The Right to Privacy” by Warren and Brandeis 1890]. Other views of privacy such as "[[Right to be Forgotten]]" or "[[Identity Theft]]" seem to be meta questions that can only be addressed by regulations applied to entities which acquire information from the user. See the page on [[Privacy]].
-The big three on the social internet are Google, Facebook and Twitter. Since their products are provided at no cost, they are dependent on advertising for revenue, which has been enormously successful. To keep the users' attention and maximize their income, these sites use design to keep the users' attention on their site and not on the traditional design goals to give a user a pleasurable experience while they went about their business on the web. Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and author of The Attention Merchants, a history of how companies through history have gathered and monetized attention, from the earliest newspapers to today’s tech platform, has argued<ref>Katharine Schwab, ''The future of humanity depends on design [[Ethics]], says Tim Wu''. (2018-09-21) Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90239599/the-future-of-humanity-depends-on-design-ethics-says-tim-wu</ref> that “We crave some sense of closure, some sense of being done. Much of [[Social Media]] tries to prevent you from ever having that feeling. Our brains like to close things out. I think that a lot of design now is trying to turn all of us into obsessive-compulsives by making it so the loops are never closed.” Film and TV offer a compelling parallel. “How do you feel after going to see a really great movie, as opposed to channel surfing for three hours?” he says. “It’s a complete difference. One has a beginning, middle, and an end, versus you saw half of 10 shows and kind of got into something that didn’t develop all the way through.” The big three would like us all be be addicted to their site, as opposed to getting real work done. “Very few things are more important now to the future of humanity than design [[Ethics]],” Wu says. “Design is the determinant, along with your will. But design creates the way you exercise choices.”
+The big three on the social internet are Google, Facebook and Twitter. Since their products are provided at no cost, they are dependent on advertising for revenue, which has been enormously successful. To keep the users'  [[Attention]] and maximize their income, these sites use design to keep the users'  [[Attention]] on their site and not on the traditional design goals to give a user a pleasurable experience while they went about their business on the web. Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and author of The  [[Attention]] Merchants, a history of how companies through history have gathered and monetized  [[Attention]], from the earliest newspapers to today’s tech platform, has argued<ref>Katharine Schwab, ''The future of humanity depends on design [[Ethics]], says Tim Wu''. (2018-09-21) Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90239599/the-future-of-humanity-depends-on-design-ethics-says-tim-wu</ref> that “We crave some sense of closure, some sense of being done. Much of [[Social Media]] tries to prevent you from ever having that feeling. Our brains like to close things out. I think that a lot of design now is trying to turn all of us into obsessive-compulsives by making it so the loops are never closed.” Film and TV offer a compelling parallel. “How do you feel after going to see a really great movie, as opposed to channel surfing for three hours?” he says. “It’s a complete difference. One has a beginning, middle, and an end, versus you saw half of 10 shows and kind of got into something that didn’t develop all the way through.” The big three would like us all be be addicted to their site, as opposed to getting real work done. “Very few things are more important now to the future of humanity than design [[Ethics]],” Wu says. “Design is the determinant, along with your will. But design creates the way you exercise choices.”
 =References=

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 One distinction that was made abundantly clear by the authors was that the "joints" between public and private spaces, between the circulation patterns in one transportation mode and other, must be very carefully made and maintained. Specifically a person needs both public and private spaces. A person needs to know when then are moving between those spaces. And circulation within one transport mode must be distinct and complete in the sense that the person can function well regardless of the transport method chosen as well as move from mode to the other. Now the transport modes in the internet appear to be quite different from those in the physical world, but they have developed their own methods and "rules of the road." Specially we can use the following to "navigate" from one environment to the other: email, hyperlinked web documents, static documents like: pictures, PDFs or spread sheets and many others that are only now developing their own protocols like [[Social Media]]. As each new communication mode matures it develops its own peculiar codes of conduct, just as the American "wild west" developed codes of conduct. As the new environments stabilize, the code of conduct are codified into [[Ethics]] and regulations to protect the weaker members of society from the stronger. A nature tension between security and liberty continues to establish a "level playing field" were everyone can expect to thrive. So here we are in the ID ecosystem with the same tension between community and privacy as have been faced in the establishment of societies in the physical world. All we can hope is that the process converges quickly enough to enable both community and privacy without too many ugly compromises.
 ==Barriers and Locks==
-In the physical world the joints between the public and various private part of any dwelling need a good architecture to assure that cross contamination by: strangers, noise, smells, dirt, modesty and other physical attributes was controlled. The conditions that apply in each realm must be maintained even as people move between the realms with relative ease. Locks between physical realms serve functions like airlocks on high altitude planes, or the familiar canal locks between channels with water a different heights. While the transition points between different realms in the internet may not appear to have much purpose at first, reflections on community and privacy reveal those transition to be critical to [[Civil Society]]. Something that is all too rare in the internet today.
+In the physical world the joints between the public and various private part of any dwelling need a good architecture to assure that cross contamination by: strangers, noise, smells, dirt, modesty and other physical attributes was controlled. The conditions that apply in each realm must be maintained even as people move between the realms with relative ease. Locks between physical realms serve functions like airlocks on high altitude planes, or the familiar canal locks between channels with water held back at different heights. While the transition points between different realms in the internet may not appear to have much purpose at first, reflections on community and privacy reveal those transition to be critical to [[Civil Society]]. Something that is all too rare in the internet today.
 Corporations and government networks learned the importance of network separation many years ago. Even now when deperimeterization of the corporate network with personal device seems to be the paradigm for enterprise computer, the separation of corporate networks to isolate high value assets is gaining adherents in all large enterprises as shown in [http://www.jwsecure.com/publications/jw-secure-informer-26/ this link.]

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 Two important aspects of any ecosystem of Trusted Identities in Cyberspace are the community of users and the privacy of users. It is typical for [[Identifier]]s in cyberspace to be generated within a community of users (e.g. bob@community.org) that can be used to provide context for web sites that rely on these identities. The historical basis for the concept of a pattern language is work on community and privacy from visionaries in the architecture of our physical world. In order to enable a clear description of the patterns in the virtual architectures provided on the internet, a language to represent the abstract components of the identity ecosystem can provide the same clarity as it did in with physical components. This page discusses the historical basis and the components for the original pattern language.
-Norbert Wiener had this to say about patterns.<ref>Norbert Wiener, '' the human use of human beings'' 1950 The Riverside Press https://monoskop.org/images/9/90/Wiener_Norbert_The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings_1950.pdf</ref><blockquote>One of the most interesting aspects of the world is that it can be considered to be made up of patterns. A pattern is essentially an arrangement. It is characterized by the order of the elements of which it is made, rather than by the intrinsic nature of these elements. Two patterns are identical if their relational structure can be put into a one-to-one correspondence, so that to each term of the one there corresponds a term of the other; and that to each relation of order between several tem1s of one, there corresponds a similar relation of order between the corresponding terms of the other... The pattern of a thing may be spread out in space, as for example, the pattern of a wallpaper; or it may be distributed in time, as the pattern of a musical composition. The pattern
+Norbert Wiener had this to say about patterns.<ref>Norbert Wiener, ''[[Human use of Human Beings]]'' 1950 The Riverside Press https://monoskop.org/images/9/90/Wiener_Norbert_The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings_1950.pdf</ref><blockquote>One of the most interesting aspects of the world is that it can be considered to be made up of patterns. A pattern is essentially an arrangement. It is characterized by the order of the elements of which it is made, rather than by the intrinsic nature of these elements. Two patterns are identical if their relational structure can be put into a one-to-one correspondence, so that to each term of the one there corresponds a term of the other; and that to each relation of order between several tem1s of one, there corresponds a similar relation of order between the corresponding terms of the other... The pattern of a thing may be spread out in space, as for example, the pattern of a wallpaper; or it may be distributed in time, as the pattern of a musical composition. The pattern
 of a musical composition again suggests the pattern of a telephone conversation, or the pattern of dots and dashes of a telegram. These two types of pattern are given the special designation of messages, not because their pattern itself differs in any way from the pattern of a musical composition, but because it is used in a somewhat different manner: namely, to convey information from one point to another, and even from one remote point to another. </blockquote>

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 =Components of the Pattern Language=
-One distinction that was made abundantly clear by the authors was that the "joints" between public and private spaces, between the circulation patterns in one transportation mode and other, must be very carefully made and maintained. Specifically a person needs both public and private spaces. A person needs to know when then are moving between those spaces. And circulation within one transport mode must be distinct and complete in the sense that the person can function well regardless of the transport method chosen as well as move from mode to the other. Now the transport modes in the internet appear to be quite different from those in the physical world, but they have developed their own methods and "rules of the road." Specially we can use the following to "navigate" from one environment to the other: email, hyperlinked web documents, static documents like: pictures, PDFs or spread sheets and many others that are only now developing their own protocols like social media. As each new communication mode matures it develops its own peculiar codes of conduct, just as the American "wild west" developed codes of conduct. As the new environments stabilize, the code of conduct are codified into [[Ethics]] and regulations to protect the weaker members of society from the stronger. A nature tension between security and liberty continues to establish a "level playing field" were everyone can expect to thrive. So here we are in the ID ecosystem with the same tension between community and privacy as have been faced in the establishment of societies in the physical world. All we can hope is that the process converges quickly enough to enable both community and privacy without too many ugly compromises.
+One distinction that was made abundantly clear by the authors was that the "joints" between public and private spaces, between the circulation patterns in one transportation mode and other, must be very carefully made and maintained. Specifically a person needs both public and private spaces. A person needs to know when then are moving between those spaces. And circulation within one transport mode must be distinct and complete in the sense that the person can function well regardless of the transport method chosen as well as move from mode to the other. Now the transport modes in the internet appear to be quite different from those in the physical world, but they have developed their own methods and "rules of the road." Specially we can use the following to "navigate" from one environment to the other: email, hyperlinked web documents, static documents like: pictures, PDFs or spread sheets and many others that are only now developing their own protocols like [[Social Media]]. As each new communication mode matures it develops its own peculiar codes of conduct, just as the American "wild west" developed codes of conduct. As the new environments stabilize, the code of conduct are codified into [[Ethics]] and regulations to protect the weaker members of society from the stronger. A nature tension between security and liberty continues to establish a "level playing field" were everyone can expect to thrive. So here we are in the ID ecosystem with the same tension between community and privacy as have been faced in the establishment of societies in the physical world. All we can hope is that the process converges quickly enough to enable both community and privacy without too many ugly compromises.
 ==Barriers and Locks==
 In the physical world the joints between the public and various private part of any dwelling need a good architecture to assure that cross contamination by: strangers, noise, smells, dirt, modesty and other physical attributes was controlled. The conditions that apply in each realm must be maintained even as people move between the realms with relative ease. Locks between physical realms serve functions like airlocks on high altitude planes, or the familiar canal locks between channels with water a different heights. While the transition points between different realms in the internet may not appear to have much purpose at first, reflections on community and privacy reveal those transition to be critical to [[Civil Society]]. Something that is all too rare in the internet today.
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 This is an old fashioned view of privacy encompassing just private spaces and private data. As with any new technology the internet has expanded the view of many existing concepts, and privacy is one of those. This book and this article consider only the traditional (130 year old) view of privacy, including the "right to be let alone" described in  [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html “The Right to Privacy” by Warren and Brandeis 1890]. Other views of privacy such as "[[Right to be Forgotten]]" or "[[Identity Theft]]" seem to be meta questions that can only be addressed by regulations applied to entities which acquire information from the user. See the page on [[Privacy]].
-The big three on the social internet are Google, Facebook and Twitter. Since their products are provided at no cost, they are dependent on advertising for revenue, which has been enormously successful. To keep the users' attention and maximize their income, these sites use design to keep the users' attention on their site and not on the traditional design goals to give a user a pleasurable experience while they went about their business on the web. Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and author of The Attention Merchants, a history of how companies through history have gathered and monetized attention, from the earliest newspapers to today’s tech platform, has argued<ref>Katharine Schwab, ''The future of humanity depends on design [[Ethics]], says Tim Wu''. (2018-09-21) Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90239599/the-future-of-humanity-depends-on-design-ethics-says-tim-wu</ref> that “We crave some sense of closure, some sense of being done. Much of social media tries to prevent you from ever having that feeling. Our brains like to close things out. I think that a lot of design now is trying to turn all of us into obsessive-compulsives by making it so the loops are never closed.” Film and TV offer a compelling parallel. “How do you feel after going to see a really great movie, as opposed to channel surfing for three hours?” he says. “It’s a complete difference. One has a beginning, middle, and an end, versus you saw half of 10 shows and kind of got into something that didn’t develop all the way through.” The big three would like us all be be addicted to their site, as opposed to getting real work done. “Very few things are more important now to the future of humanity than design [[Ethics]],” Wu says. “Design is the determinant, along with your will. But design creates the way you exercise choices.”
+The big three on the social internet are Google, Facebook and Twitter. Since their products are provided at no cost, they are dependent on advertising for revenue, which has been enormously successful. To keep the users' attention and maximize their income, these sites use design to keep the users' attention on their site and not on the traditional design goals to give a user a pleasurable experience while they went about their business on the web. Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and author of The Attention Merchants, a history of how companies through history have gathered and monetized attention, from the earliest newspapers to today’s tech platform, has argued<ref>Katharine Schwab, ''The future of humanity depends on design [[Ethics]], says Tim Wu''. (2018-09-21) Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90239599/the-future-of-humanity-depends-on-design-ethics-says-tim-wu</ref> that “We crave some sense of closure, some sense of being done. Much of [[Social Media]] tries to prevent you from ever having that feeling. Our brains like to close things out. I think that a lot of design now is trying to turn all of us into obsessive-compulsives by making it so the loops are never closed.” Film and TV offer a compelling parallel. “How do you feel after going to see a really great movie, as opposed to channel surfing for three hours?” he says. “It’s a complete difference. One has a beginning, middle, and an end, versus you saw half of 10 shows and kind of got into something that didn’t develop all the way through.” The big three would like us all be be addicted to their site, as opposed to getting real work done. “Very few things are more important now to the future of humanity than design [[Ethics]],” Wu says. “Design is the determinant, along with your will. But design creates the way you exercise choices.”
 =References=

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 ==In conclusion==
-The authors end their book with this quote: "Civilized man must give high priority to the development of a unified field of environmental control in which art will once again be tempered by the purposeful discipline of science, and science be inspired by the insights of art. This amalgam could produce a comprehensive design that would not only accommodate Community and Privacy but would celebrate both in the Architecture of a new Humanism." The recent explosion of social media on the internet has given new meaning to the concept of community. It seems like a good time to try to swing the pendulum back bringing a better balance to the ecosystem with a similar burst of [[Innovation]] in enabling privacy of the sort envisioned by these authors.
+The authors end their book with this quote: "Civilized man must give high priority to the development of a unified field of environmental control in which art will once again be tempered by the purposeful discipline of science, and science be inspired by the insights of art. This amalgam could produce a comprehensive design that would not only accommodate Community and Privacy but would celebrate both in the Architecture of a new Humanism." The recent explosion of [[Social Media]] on the internet has given new meaning to the concept of community. It seems like a good time to try to swing the pendulum back bringing a better balance to the ecosystem with a similar burst of [[Innovation]] in enabling privacy of the sort envisioned by these authors.
 =Components of the Pattern Language=

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 Two important aspects of any ecosystem of Trusted Identities in Cyberspace are the community of users and the privacy of users. It is typical for [[Identifier]]s in cyberspace to be generated within a community of users (e.g. bob@community.org) that can be used to provide context for web sites that rely on these identities. The historical basis for the concept of a pattern language is work on community and privacy from visionaries in the architecture of our physical world. In order to enable a clear description of the patterns in the virtual architectures provided on the internet, a language to represent the abstract components of the identity ecosystem can provide the same clarity as it did in with physical components. This page discusses the historical basis and the components for the original pattern language.
-Norbert Wiener had this to say about patterns.<ref>Norbert Wiener, '' the human use of human beings'' 1950 The Riverside Press </ref><blockquote>One of the most interesting aspects of the world is that it can be considered to be made up of patterns. A pattern is essentially an arrangement. It is characterized by the order of the elements of which it is made, rather than by the intrinsic nature of these elements. Two patterns are identical if their relational structure can be put into a one-to-one correspondence, so that to each term of the one there corresponds a term of the other; and that to each relation of order between several tem1s of one, there corresponds a similar relation of order between the corresponding terms of the other. </blockquote>
+Norbert Wiener had this to say about patterns.<ref>Norbert Wiener, '' the human use of human beings'' 1950 The Riverside Press https://monoskop.org/images/9/90/Wiener_Norbert_The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings_1950.pdf</ref><blockquote>One of the most interesting aspects of the world is that it can be considered to be made up of patterns. A pattern is essentially an arrangement. It is characterized by the order of the elements of which it is made, rather than by the intrinsic nature of these elements. Two patterns are identical if their relational structure can be put into a one-to-one correspondence, so that to each term of the one there corresponds a term of the other; and that to each relation of order between several tem1s of one, there corresponds a similar relation of order between the corresponding terms of the other. </blockquote>
 =Historical Basis for the Pattern Language=

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 ==Simple Truths==
-Nietzsche teaches<ref> Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human. (original 1878) part I aphorism 3 ISBN 9780140446173 </ref> that it is the unpretentious truths that higher culture will value in the future over the mind-numbing and dazzling treatises of philosophers of the past. What will remain are the simple truths derived by scientific methods. In engineering terms this ideas is somewhat trivialized as "Keep it Simple Stupid" or KiSS. The more complex the design, the more difficult it will be for users to understand what is happening, or what it might mean to them. In general the overriding theme of any site needs to be clear and consistent and relate to something of importance to the user. Something that is clearly embodied in the presentation.
+Nietzsche teaches<ref> Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human. (original 1878) part I aphorism 3 ISBN 9780140446173 </ref> that it is the unpretentious truths that higher culture will value in the future over the mind-numbing and dazzling treatises of philosophers of the past. What will remain are the simple truths derived by scientific methods. In engineering terms this ideas is somewhat trivialized as "Keep it Simple Stupid" or KiSS. The more complex the design, the more difficult it will be for users to understand what is happening, or what it might mean to them. In general the overriding theme of any site needs to be clear and consistent and relate to something of importance to the user. Something that is clearly embodied in the [[Presentation]].
 ==The Ethics of Design==