Designers Destroyed the World
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- breadlegz
"You are directly responsible for what you put into the world. Yet every day designers all over the world work on projects without giving any thought or consideration to the impact that work has on the world around them. This needs to change."
Mike Monteiro
- breadlegz0
(didn't know how to embed a vimeo vid sorry)
- ideaist0
"F*ck You. Pay Me." dude.
- utopian0
where is the video, no can see.
- PonyBoy0
"Our infrastructure is rotting, our world economy is crap. Major media outlets are flushing entire investigative journalism departments down the drain. Wallstreet is awash with criminals and billions of people can't get basic medical care, food and water... and we are building apps to rate our sandwiches, to tell each other where we are, who we're with and when we've gone to bed..."
Love this guy... loved his 'Fuck You. Pay Me.' vid too
- breadlegz0
Mike is the only person, for a long while, that's got me excited about design again.
- ernexbcn0
Interesting.
- colin_s0
good talk
- ernexbcn0
I mean he makes great points but in the end of the day there are always some people who are going to do the wrong thing for the money.
- renderedred0
Great! Thanks for posting.
- colin_s0
this is a great idea that everyone will say "this is awesome!" but doesn't follow through on.
i dunno, i was fired earlier this year because i called out the company president on some bullshit (design related and professionalism) and haven't looked back. you do have to be willing to fall hard if you stand up for what you believe in.
over the back channels i heard my little letter to her was quite well received, by everyone but her who saw it. but in the end, designers do have little power to stop authority unleashed unless, well, everyone stands arm in arm. it's just like capitalism / everything else in the world. the people don't recognize the power they have.
- ukit20
@ colin_s
Sure, designing a specific solution. Not trying to determine what the ripple effect will be on the other side of the world five years from now.
For instance he uses the example of a privacy settings change in Facebook that resulted in a girl accidentally being outed to her dad. But does that one accidental result really mean that the design choice was "bad"?
We can all think of obvious examples like don't work for a cigarette company but once you get beyond that it gets kind of hard to determine.
- in that particular example he gave that thing was completely retarded and bad designedernexbcn
- freedom0
This is more like lack of thinking and design.
- ukit20
Also "doing good" to a group of designers at a conference typically amounts to the stuff we can all agree on: recycle more often, buy organic food, gay rights etc. All good causes but if you really want to change the world, it's going to be something a lot more radical. Probably the kind of stuff people don't want to hear at a conference like this.
- monkeyshine0
^ I kinda disagree. I think the stuff that changes the world happens at a micro level that we don't tend to see on a daily basis. The stuff that gets press seems huge and radical but I don't think that's where the pulse of change lives.
- yurimon0
Just out of curiosity.
How many of you inspired?
How many of you are actually going to take action if inspired from this video lecture?
- doesnotexist0
what are you guys talking about in here?
- they're questioning their own existence and reason for beingalbums
- canoe0
even as marginal as it is there's more thought going into impact/repercussions today than there ever has in the past
not sure how "timely" this video is
- doesnotexist0
the whole reusable shopping bag / retail bags
recycled paper
shit, i saw some recycled toilet paper the other day
sweden burn's its trash for energy