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Why bad technology dominates our lives by Don Norman
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoInteresting short read. As a UX designer I am often tasked at creating ways to get people back into an app or a website. I feel like may never escape the profit driven cycle that enables taking advantage of people’s attention. I don’t enjoy that aspect of my job but bills must be paid.
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoAsking a UX designer to 'make my app / website popular again' sounds like something a soon-to-be-failed company would say. Good content transcends bad UX. Good UX will never save bad content. I think the "bills must be paid" philosophy goes all the way up the chain though. We're most of us in that leaky boat.
- PacifyFish 8y agoCapitalism rewards profitability above all else. For better or worse, a lot of “bad tech” monetizes really well. It ain’t perfect, but is there a better way to organize a large-scale society?
- slededit 8y agoPeople would rather have something new and unstable than refined but a little out of date. That's the sole reason tech is "bad". Any company that decides we're just going to focus on bug fixing is a dead company.