Bastard culture (XBOX IMAGES AND SCREENSHOT)

Abstract

The case of the modification of the Microsoft Xbox demonstrates how users appropriate corporate design and to what extent the basic affordances of the Xbox have even provoked this appropriation. Ultimately, the Xbox case advocates the recognition of a second step of design development in which the corporate designers formalize many modifications and user activities to work towards a further revision of the design, thus benefiting technologically, and in the last instance also financially, from the input users provide.