Designers Destroyed the World
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- prophetone0
vimeo embeds are destroying the world
- zarkonite0
I saw him give a talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, he's freakin' hilarious and insightful.
- Julesvm0
"never trust a designer who's never been punched in the mouth"
- tOki0
This did the rounds at work this week.
Some great advice, but a bit intense and I feel more negative than it needed to be. We aren't all working for the evil facebook outing teens who are gay or bp polluting the earth. For many of us we do work that whilst important to the person/company receiving is not of grand importance to society. We can't all design water bottles for NPO's :P
- ukit20
He's a good speaker, but you have to question whether the designers at Facebook or any company really have control over policies that are almost certainly the result of high level business decisions. Maybe the VP for User Experience or something can be blamed, but lower level implementers are no more culpable than the person who develops the site or even the end user who decides to use the site.
Also it feels great to hear this kind of "designers can make a better world" message, conscious consumerism etc. But there's a good argument to made that all it does is entrench the current system, like this video talks about.
- ohhhhhsnap0
- what is this?cannonball1978
- http://www.youtube.c…orrinward2
- A russian ad or sketch? The guy goes to his insurance companies office and asks to make a claim.orrinward2
- People turning into objects, duhukit2