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The design industry is absolutely toxic. It's dripping with this type of stuff. Trends and herd mentality rules everything around designers. It's why I started

The design industry is absolutely toxic. It's dripping with this type of stuff. Trends and herd mentality rules everything around designers. It's why I started to move outside of design and into product. There's absolutely no room in the design industry for critical thought or dissenting opinion. It's so wrapped up into itself that any attempts at questioning the status quo are quickly thrown out as hate. I firmly believe that the design industry is a great way to see the deterioration of society at large.

RickS 10y ago
Meh. It's toxic in the way development is toxic. There's a ~5% group of pragmatic systems thinkers, and a long tail of dudes on craigslist building vuln heavy PHP crapware for 25/hr. But everything in the world is like that! Pizza, burritos, laptops, blue jeans, 3d printers.... it's just the way the math of life works out. Most ponies aren't pegasus. I don't think it's representative of the decline of society, I think it's representative of the distribution of society. And that's an impractical thing to get worked up about. I'll admit, it's a little lonely though, having the groups that are best qualified to talk about the problems you like, but they're totally disinterested/distracted.
- whytaka 10y ago
  I think with graphic design becoming a more common skill, the industry's culture has indeed gotten worse. People are more desperate for work and conform to an image and language.
  - Mendenhall 10y ago
    Yea many take their "cue" from a few popular designers and sort of use it to justify their design decisions. Often I feel its newer designers who may not feel comfortable taking a more assertive role in the process. I also notice the same sort of trend in concept art where many look like they use the same "photoshop" technique.

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The design industry is absolutely toxic. It's dripping with this type of stuff. Trends and herd mentality rules everything around designers. It's why I started

by ryanSrich 10y ago

RickS 10y ago
Meh. It's toxic in the way development is toxic. There's a ~5% group of pragmatic systems thinkers, and a long tail of dudes on craigslist building vuln heavy PHP crapware for 25/hr. But everything in the world is like that! Pizza, burritos, laptops, blue jeans, 3d printers.... it's just the way the math of life works out. Most ponies aren't pegasus. I don't think it's representative of the decline of society, I think it's representative of the distribution of society. And that's an impractical thing to get worked up about. I'll admit, it's a little lonely though, having the groups that are best qualified to talk about the problems you like, but they're totally disinterested/distracted.
- whytaka 10y ago
  I think with graphic design becoming a more common skill, the industry's culture has indeed gotten worse. People are more desperate for work and conform to an image and language.
  - Mendenhall 10y ago
    Yea many take their "cue" from a few popular designers and sort of use it to justify their design decisions. Often I feel its newer designers who may not feel comfortable taking a more assertive role in the process. I also notice the same sort of trend in concept art where many look like they use the same "photoshop" technique.