Musiac is a musical recommendation engine, utilize proactive participation to find precise options for its users. It aims to propose alternative interfaces to challenge the algorithm autocracy. Information filtering has become an inevitable searching approach. However, it creates echo chamber effects and constrains users in their comfort zone by strickly follow their preferences. Users become passive and stop questioning the options the machine provides. Spending time to review options may increase huge bio-cost, but it is the effort that creates a meaningful experience.
Chia Min Lin is a quiet yet rigorous and evolving designer. She dedicates to challenging traditional design thinking by embracing systematic and holistic perspectives. She has studied both cybernetics and aesthetic. Her works focus on highlighting the in-between-relationships since how human think/act interests her. From her point of view, design is never about a trend or a style. It's a language of how we interpret the world around us.
LinStudio was founded in 2009, specializing in graphic design and integration design from systemic social perspectives. We take design as a profound language to communicate and solve problems for better relationships. We ask questions such: how could we inspire new dialog between human and technology? What kind of society do you want to live? What's the societal potential being neglected? LinStudio seek the harmonious interaction between machine and people.