Much as we don’t like to admit it, users have an expiration date. Even in the best case scenario, where the product and services we design aren’t abandoned due to inertia or lack of interest, human beings stop being users when life ends. Or do they?
More and more often what is left behind is a digital ghost, a unidimensional clone borne out the million of macro and micro-interactions that we generate digitally during our physical life. Or is it? Is it possible to recreate life, or a version of it, that can help us get past pain and sense of loss that comes with death?
We will embark on a wacky journey through the maze of novelties and oddities that surround the end of life, to understand how we can organize information and systems, and ponder those ethical and practical questions raised by physical death in the digital age.
