Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design in San Francisco. He prefers that designers have strong spines. Mike writes and speaks frequently about the craft, ethics, and business of design.
He loves design so much he wrote three books on the topic, Design is a Job, You’re My Favorite Client (both available from A Book Apart) and Ruined by Design. Mike received the 2014 Net award for Conference Talk of the Year for his inspirational polemic on responsibility, “How Designers Destroyed the World.”
The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their “real names” initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitter’s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it’s designed to work.The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all. Design is also a craft with a lot of blood on its hands. Every cigarette ad is on us. Every gun is on us. Every ballot that a voter cannot understand is on us. Every time social network’s interface allows a stalker to find their victim, that’s on us. The monsters we unleash into the world will carry your name. This book will make you see that design is a political act. What we choose to design is a political act. Who we choose to work for is a political act. Who we choose to work with is a political act. And, most importantly, the people we’ve excluded from these decisions is the biggest (and stupidest) political act we’ve made as a society.If you’re a designer, this book might make you angry. It should make you angry. But it will also give you the tools you need to make better decisions. You will learn how to evaluate the potential benefits and harm of what you’re working on. You’ll learn how to present your concerns. You’ll learn the importance of building and working with diverse teams who can approach problems from multiple points-of-view. You’ll learn how to make a case using data and good storytelling. You’ll learn to say NO in a way that’ll make people listen. But mostly, this book will fill you with the confidence to do the job the way you always wanted to be able to do it. This book will help you understand your responsibilities.
發表於2024-08-22
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圖書標籤: 設計 設計倫理 創新 文化 戰略 可持續性發展
Garden metaphor is good but too many repetitive options
評分讀瞭前幾章不太想讀下去瞭… 呼籲反思設計的道德和社會責任感本意是好的,但作者完全忽視瞭當代産品積極的一麵而反復重復那些極端事件。如果作者能多從事物的兩麵性論證,給齣更有說服力的論據和建設性意見,而不是重復觀點、憤怒咆哮,或許這本書能更有價值。(建議不如去看作者在書中反復引用的 Victor Papanek 的 Design for the Real World,半個世紀前的書,對於設計道德的探討比本書深刻警醒有說服力得多)
評分Garden metaphor is good but too many repetitive options
評分讀瞭前幾章不太想讀下去瞭… 呼籲反思設計的道德和社會責任感本意是好的,但作者完全忽視瞭當代産品積極的一麵而反復重復那些極端事件。如果作者能多從事物的兩麵性論證,給齣更有說服力的論據和建設性意見,而不是重復觀點、憤怒咆哮,或許這本書能更有價值。(建議不如去看作者在書中反復引用的 Victor Papanek 的 Design for the Real World,半個世紀前的書,對於設計道德的探討比本書深刻警醒有說服力得多)
評分The issue is real, yet some arguments are not convincing enough.
Ruined by Design 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載