Tanya Sujohn

Tanya Sujohn is the London College of Communication academic cited in Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that. She explains that digital well-being and detox products often use familiar engagement features such as dashboards, tracking, streaks, and friend layers to give users a sense of control over phone use.

Her main contribution is the source’s paradox: products that promise less phone use may borrow from the same interface language that keeps people using phones. She also shifts responsibility away from pure individual blame by arguing that people use these technologies as they were designed to be used.

Connections

• London College of Communication - affiliation in the source.
• Marketplace Tech and Maria Hollenhorst - show and reporter context.
• Digital Detox Economy and Screen Time Friction - market and design patterns she critiques.
• Addictive Interaction Design and Attention Industrialization - broader wiki concepts her comments reinforce.