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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r OP 29 Jun \ parent \ on: The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’ Design
Messages like the one shared in the poster by Chimero, or what Victor Papanek similar message “There are professions more harmful than industrial design, very few.” from his book (Design for the Real World) aim to highlight the unseen details that design is always at the service of what the main industry aim to drive.
Another similar case in past years was how social media has been designed. Sean Parker reminded us how Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability":
"That means that we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever ... It's a social validation feedback loop ... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology ... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway."
This article aim to enphatize some of these points, concluding with a "Design can do it", but not alone outro. Beauty is simply the outcome of the function solving a common problem.
"Beauty is simply the outcome of the function solving a common problem."
This sums it up for me. If that's the take, I'm all about it.
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