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Design’s Lost Generation
role of design. It's way too late in the game to get the real value of design, and mostly what's being done is what we call the “lipstick on the pig” model. The damage has already been done, and now we're just trying to put a coat of paint on the mess.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Designers and entrepreneurs deserve their fair share of the credit for moving us forward, but should be just as accountable for how they’ve sent us backward.
Scott Berkun • How Design Makes the World
But design has also been trivialized, misunderstood and misused. It is routinely confused with styling, and with expensive, uncomfortable chairs or silly shoes with vertiginously high heels.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Designers are taught that their job is to represent the people who will use our products. We "empathize" with them and put their needs at the center of our decision-making process. As companies scale up, their priorities and incentives become less and less aligned with the people using their products. Bad things happen as we stop solving people pro... See more
Jesse Weaver • Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
