Greetings from creepy futures: imagining creepy technology as a resource for design

What if we deliberately designed computers to be creepy? This pictorial explores using Design Fiction to create a collection of speculative creepy devices that we could imagine living with. We investigated how leveraging creepiness as a normalised design attribute could serve as a resource to reflect on what makes good user-centred design. During a span of nine weeks, we engaged in sharing our personal lived experiences as a prompt to imagine creepy futures and devices that could address our needs, albeit designed to be creepy. This approach enabled us to evoke experiences that have not happened with devices that do not exist, which facilitated a reflection on their impact on everyday choreographies and tensions on their usability through speculative autoethnographies. We contribute a set of imaginary devices from creepy futures that illustrate the exploration and adoption of creepy speculations to facilitate new critical discourses to rethink designing interactive systems.