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Ruined by design gives us reasons to be both furious and hopeful

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Theres little evidence that anyone in silicon valley read the book because as monteiro swearingly and entertainingly shows in ruined by design designers are making things that hurt us in the service of making a buck

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While in papaneks time designers were designing cars they knew werent safe monteiro makes the case that spineless clueless or gutless designers are using their talents to build social media systems that make us depressed surveillance systems that stifle our democracy and dating apps that put people at real risk of physical harm

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These negative aspects of these systems monteiro says arent bugs

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Theyre the result of the system operating 100 as intended

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But the key point that he makes throughout is that designers dont get to opt out of their moral and ethical obligations to their fellow human beings just because theyre on the clock

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Five ayn rand social security checks out of five

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This book may be an uncomfortable read