How Designers Destroyed the World - Mike Monteiro, at USI

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Mike Monteiro of Mule Design argues that designers are responsible for what they put into the world, and that the harms of tech products are design failures. This is the USI recording of a talk he has given at several conferences.

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@greenyoda2024 · in “How Designers Destroyed the World – Mike Monteiro (2015) [video]”
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@andrei_says_2024 · in “Ask HN: How can we change ethics in big tech?”
Tech worker unions? As well as designer unions? Basically empowering tech workers to refuse unethical work, collectively, without the threat of losing their jobs and becoming homeless. And, sufficient diversity to ensure representation of vulnerable populations in the workforce. For example, a product team having women in decision making positions is much less likely to ship a product lacking basic protections from types of abuse that only women experience - compared to a product team consisting of tech bros. Mike Monteiro has a fantastic talk on the topic. ▶ this video
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@keyringlight2023 · in “Software bugs that cause real-world harm”
Mike Monteiro did a talk [1] along these lines - "How Designers Destroyed the World". [1] ▶ this video
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@Someone2017 · in “Ask HN: Help me remember which conference presentation I'm thinking of”
Likely Mike Monteiro “How Designers Destroyed the World”. Google gives multiple video’s, for example: Webstock ‘13: link BlendConf ‘14: link An Event Apart 2015: link USI: ▶ this video
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