Over the past 15 years, design has largely been about optimizing extractive business models and implementing dark patterns in pursuit of short-sighted OKRs.

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I sometimes teach design and it’s unfortunate how many students genuinely believe that design will provide a moral/ethical backbone to the tech industry.

Truthfully, without design getting involved, we wouldn’t have nearly the scale of problems we have today. Nobody would have used the shit.

Yeah, especially the kind of "design" that FAANG select for