In a world full of networked hardware, the design of software is more important than ever. For design to work at web scale it must move beyond users and screens. The new materials of design aren’t just plastic, pixels, and code; they’re the social and computational fabric of the web: Crowds, algorithms, and the software forms they enable.
http://interaction16.ixda.org/session/crowds-algorithms-and-computation-the-new-materials-of-design/
