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

by Mike Monteiro

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

“Anyone who influences what the design becomes is the designer. This includes developers, PMs, even corporate legal. All are the designers.”

Let’s put imposter syndrome to bed once and for all. If you got hired after going through a lengthy interview process where you interviewed multiple times with multiple people, there’s really only two options. One—everyone who interviewed you is an idiot and you somehow managed to pull one over on them. That’s actually pretty unlikely. You might’ve been able to fool one or two, but not the whole lot. Or two—you’re actually as good as the people who interviewed you thought you were. That seems like the more reasonable option, so stop it with the imposter syndrome stuff. When someone decides you’ve earned the right to call yourself a professional designer and get paid for it—believe them. You only need to get hired for a job once. After that, you get to do it. No, you have to do it.