Applied phenomenology for technology

Asking how things actually feel to use.

Applied phenomenology means investigating experience rather than just behavior. For technology, this means asking not just “does it work?” or “do people use it?” but “how does it feel to use? What is the experience actually like?”

This is the through-line of Applied Humanism. Technology should be evaluated not just on what it does, but on what it’s like to live with. Does it leave you feeling more capable or less? More human or less? More connected to your purposes or more disconnected?

The answers aren’t always what the metrics say.