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Format: App
Topic: Internet Data Mining
Year: 2024
The Capital Market project is a speculative application that transforms the project author into a stock. The goal is to apply the principles of private investment markets and integrate the concept of restricted dividend-paying shares contracts to capitalize on personal development and experiences. Positive and negative events drive the stock price and determine the amount of dividends.
To investigate this idea, the author analyzed stock market mechanics and identified restricted dividend-paying shares contracts as the most suitable metaphor for the project. They conducted literature studies and analyzed sources that influenced each facet of their identity, creating a database with guiding principles. As a UI/UX design major, the author developed high-fidelity prototypes to demonstrate the concept.
In conclusion, this speculative project highlights the growing trend of self-data becoming public and monetized, while interpersonal relationships become more transactional and less personal. Further project development involves programming the app and conducting real-life testing. It will be interesting to observe whether people perceive this as brutal and inhumane or as an acceptable concept, which would indicate yet another boundary being pushed in terms of privacy of self-data.