Rania ZYANE

Human Should Decide Button - A one-button website that records a single human action.

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Only press if you believe a human should decide. Most products optimize for engagement, efficiency, or outcomes. This one doesn’t. It consists of a single button whose only function is to record that a human chose to press it. There are no accounts, rewards, or actions beyond that. A short daily observation is shown to reflect how the button is being used. This project exists to prove that a single human action still matters, even when it does nothing.

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Rania ZYANE
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Hi, I’m the maker. I built this because most things online are designed to extract attention, optimize behavior, or push toward an outcome. I wanted to build something that didn’t do any of that : something that asked for a single action and nothing more. The “problem,” if there was one, wasn’t technical. It was the feeling that even very small interactions online are usually framed as data to be optimized or monetized. I was curious what would happen if an interaction was recorded but not used for anything. The process stayed intentionally constrained. I kept removing features instead of adding them, and any idea that introduced rewards, personalization, monetization, or goals was dropped. The only thing that evolved was the daily observation, which emerged as a way to acknowledge that the system is noticing people without asking anything from them. I’m here all day and genuinely curious how others interpret this. There’s no right way to use it.
Rania ZYANE

Hello,

One thing I want to clarify: this isn’t meant to be anti-automation.

I use automated systems every day, and most of the time they work well. This is more about the edge cases. The moments where a decision feels final and there’s no visible path back to human judgment.

The button doesn’t solve that. It just records that someone felt that boundary.