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The idea that "[a]t its root, this is a design problem" is frankly laughable.
by Balbazac 9y ago
The idea that "[a]t its root, this is a design problem" is frankly laughable.
- HillRat 9y agoDesign, culture, and technology are deeply intertwined; society warps to fit its tools. As designers (remember, design thinking has antecedentally one foot in industrial design, one foot in programming functional requirements gathering), the creators of today's digital tools have essentially abdicated the responsibility of thinking about how their products change culture and what effects they have, positive or negative. Instead, we nod towards market forces and "fail fast" capitalism, which ends up justifying whatever cool toys we end up wanting to create.