The World is working exactly as designed.
This book will help you understand your responsibilities..
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.
You\'ll learn to say NO in a way that\'ll make people listen.
You\'ll learn how to make a case using data and good storytelling.
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 present your concerns.
You will learn how to evaluate the potential benefits and harm of What you\'re working on.
But it will also give you the tools you need to make better decisions.
It should make you angry.
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.
Who we choose to work with is a political act.
Who we choose to work for is a political act.
What we choose to design is a political act.
This book will make you see that design is a political act.
The monsters we unleash into the World will carry your name.
Every time social network\'s interface allows a stalker to find their victim, that\'s on us.
Every ballot that a voter cannot understand is on us.
Every gun is on us.
Every cigarette ad is on us.
Design is also a craft with a lot of blood on its hands.
The responsibility to help create a better World for all.
Design is a craft with responsibility.
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.
The power to influence.
The power to choose.
Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power.
Which means we need to do a better job of designing it.
And it\'s not working very well.
Twitter\'s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it\'s designed to work.
The World is working exactly as designed.
Their "real names" initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed.
Facebook\'s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed.
And every time we "improve" their design, they get better at killing.
Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they\'re designed to work.
The combustion engine which is destroying our planet\'s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it.
The World is working exactly as designed
