There were 2 moments where I nearly quit working in design:
1. When I realized it’s all manipulation to get people to buy crap they most likely don’t need.
2. When I realized most websites can be just text. (This is before I got more into product design)
I was thinking … here I am trying to influence people to buy stuff they don’t need while wasting years of their life (cumulatively) trying to make sense of whatever a designer thought was a good idea when all the visitor wanted was some info.
What walked me back a bit was realizing that design can be used for good - to help people find what they’re looking for and to save time instead of spending it reading walls of text.
The intersection of these contradictions is where you find most of the truly talented people - the ones who understand what it’s all about and the responsibility they hold in their hands.
But, I still think about every second I’ve made someone look at what I made, instead of what they could have done with that time…
karnage / Karnage
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