"Ruined by Design" Bookclub
summary
Group discussion uses Ruined by Design as a jumping‑off point to press specific claims: designers create dark patterns and must answer for harms, algorithms hide accountability, and licensing or a designer code of ethics could give workers leverage. Examples include Twitter moderation differences by country, Jeff Hinton quitting Google over ethics, and a school project that looped in a CIA analyst and a journalist to curb disinformation and produced partial policy changes. Tactics offered: start meetings with the harm, use ethical sabotage to slow dangerous launches.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 9:03Making change from within
- 26:41Accountability in tech products
- 41:44Licensing for designers
- 57:23Ethics and capitalism
- 1:00:11Veil of ignorance in design
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