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

by Mike Monteiro

It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.

When you do work that depends on a need for income disparity or class distinctions to succeed, you are failing at your job as a human being, and therefore as a designer.

An object that is designed to harm people cannot be said to be well-designed, no matter how aesthetically pleasing it might be, because to design it well is to design it to harm others.

A broken gun is better designed than a working gun.

Need to think more about this.

Good leaders should aspire to have their fingerprints all over hard decisions.

Cooperation and regret is noted, but it doesn’t excuse the conduct.

Imagine needing two years of extra schooling and certification before you got near anything with data collection implications.

Ethics cannot be a side hustle.