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

by Mike Monteiro

I design digital things that people interact with.

I should use this definition when people ask what I do as a UX designer

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.

Everything is political!

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.”

There’s a reason everybody hates moral philosophy professors: they write incredibly boring books!

Was not expecting a Good Place reference in my design book

when the people at the top tell you they want to change the world, it’s generally because they’ve figured out how to profit even more from those below them.

We need to fear the consequences of our work more than we love the cleverness of our ideas.