A review by julialg
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro

5.0

Don’t read this as a designer if you are currently or want to be a Silicon Valley Bro. This was suggested to me as a UX Designer whose 2-year program currently does not have a required design ethics course, and I think this is an excellent wake up call to many UX Designers because we do have a moral responsibility to consider the technologies and products we’re designing and testing since we are, in effect, manipulating the user’s way of handling the product and how we format it to the users is important. Monteiro’s voice is brash and I’ve never read so many “fuck you’s” in a design book before, but it gets the point across unless, as mentioned, you’re a Silicon Valley baby who’ll read this and just scoff. Because that’s exactly who he’s targeting and the exact person he knows he will never be able to change.