In order to build information systems which create relationships, it's important to understand their underlying structure. This talk defines what a relationship is and hints at principles for designing information systems which create them.

1. hacking human connection
David Jay
@davidgljay
davidgljay@gmail.com

2. Relationships
are awesome.

3. Relationships Drive….
Music Economic Growth
Social Change Intimacy
Happiness Science
Business
Politics Art Education
Family Innovation Wellness

4. these things

5. How do we describe relationships?

6. How do we describe relationships?

7. How do we describe relationships?

8. Relationships are
COMPLICATED

9. Complex systems have
striking structural similarities.

10. Can we use…
these complex systems?
these underlying structures

11. Optimization Problems
Show up everywhere.

12. Exploration
Selection Differentiation
The Evolutionary Algorithm
Always shows up to solve them.

13. A relationship as one big optimization problem:
How should we spend time together?

14. Explore ways
of spending
time.
Make plans Express
and keep emotion &
them. preference.

15. How do we describe relationships?
Measures all types of relationships.
Gives insight into how relationships evolve.
Hints at design criteria.

16. Be a Botanist
Exploration
Selection Differentiation
Collect beautiful samples.

17. Design For Connection
What contexts enable relationships to optimize?

18. 5 Tips for Hacking Human Connection
1. Think in Relationships
2. Look for Complexity
3. Exploration, Differentiation, Selection
4. Be a Botanist
5. Design for Connection