Post-Growth UX
A design philosophy for digital environments that respect nervous systems, cognition, consent, context, and embodied life.
Writing
Writing Themes and Selected Essays
Marianne's writing connects systems thinking, technology, attention, agency, political economy, psychology, and social change.
Themes
- Technology and digital environments as psychological and political systems.
- Agency, consent, defaults, and the environments that shape people's choices.
- Abundance, needs, social possibility, and the conditions for human flourishing.
- Accessible systems thinking for people trying to understand modern life.
Selected essays and frameworks
Choice Quality Framework: How Much Room Do People Really Have to Act?
A practical way to examine whether people can understand their choices, use real options, say no safely, be heard, and change course.
The Myth of Selfishness: What Makes It Easier to Care, Share, and Change?
A practical framework for seeing how real or felt scarcity, incentives, trust, and repeated interaction shape care and cooperation.
The Helpful Little Machine
A short story about helpful technology, dependency, agency, and the quiet cost of systems that smooth every edge.