Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

If you work at Uber or Twitter, just quit.

My goal is to teach you how to work the right way, and it takes both morals and ethics. Understanding the difference between the two is like understanding the difference between a font and a typeface.

I intend to show you that design is a political act. What we choose to design and more importantly, what we choose not to design, and even more importantly, who we exclude from the design process—these are all political acts. Knowing this and ignoring it is also a political act, albeit a cowardly one. Understanding the power in our labor and how we choose to use it defines the type of people we are. As the great Victor Papanek once said, “You are responsible for what you put into the world. And you are responsible for the effects those things have upon the world.”