Ruined by Design

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• nonrandomstring · Feb 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …reading Shoshana Zuboff Big Other (surveillance capitalism) Virginia Eubanks Automating Inequality Sophie Brickman Baby Unplugged Cory Doctorow Radicalized Mike Monteiro Ruined by Design Nick Srnicek Platform Capitalism Paul Kingsnorth Life versus the machine Heather Burns Understanding Privacy Roger McNamee Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe…

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• andrei_says_ · Nov 16, 2023 · Recommends

  There’s a whole book dedicated to turning gullible obedient designers happily producing malicious dark patterns into designers who own their responsibility to society and the end users. It’s called Ruined by Design, by Mike Monteiro. He also has a talk on the same topic. Both are highly recommended. In short, a designer has a responsibility to use the craft for good and refuse to weaponize it. For this to be a…

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• andrei_says_ · Aug 8, 2020 · Mentions

  Thank you for this perspective. I’ve been reading Mike Monteiro’s Ruined by Design. In one of the chapters he points out how tech companies’ policies for the communities they create are set by “tech bros” - predominantly white privileged males, who have never experienced life as a poor…

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• nonrandomstring · Mar 7, 2022 · Mentions

  …Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Siva Vaidhyanathan Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us Virginia Eubanks Automating Inequality Sophie Brickman Baby Unplugged Mike Monteiro Ruined by Design Thomas Kersting Disconnected: Protect Your Kids Against Device Dependency Nicholas Kardaras Glow Kids Jaron Lanier Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Douglas Rushkoff…

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