Jésabel DC

Jésabel DC is a tech anthropologist and low-tech futurist studying how technology shapes human attention, behaviour, relationships and everyday life.

Her work draws on more than 4,000 hours of anthropological fieldwork examining the relationship between people and digital systems: how interfaces structure behaviour, how design conventions influence expectations and habits, and how increasingly automated and frictionless technologies affect orientation, agency and cognitive load.

She is the creator of The Future Is Low-Tech, an ongoing body of research examining what contemporary technology can learn from older interfaces, physical systems and pre-frictionless design. The work asks which useful forms of feedback, constraint, legibility and participation have been designed away — and how they might inform technologies that function better for the people using them. The work debuted at SXSW and was later presented to roughly 3,000 designers at Figma Config.