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Designers — let’s talk about why trust must become the new oil
A brief inspection of our responsibility as designers
I was meeting a friend for coffee and surprisingly started talking about a topic we never really talked or thought of before or even looked up anything on the internet. We talked about tiny pizza ovens for your home. We discussed where to put it and even what kind of cool parties we could throw with this oven. Baking pizzas all night long. Basically a crazy party.
Guess what — on my way back home I scrolled through Instagram and many amazing offers for tiny pizza ovens appeared.
I think we all have experienced something similar before.
In this short article, I don’t want to talk about the fact that we are designing products and digital services that steal people’s time and changes the whole fabric of our society. Or that we know how to trick the user to do specific things like clicking on this CTA for a higher conversation rate.
This is going to be another story.
I would like to share my thoughts about responsibility and trust when it comes to emerging technologies and artificial intelligence.
Responsibility of Design
When I started my design career as a graphic designer, before I switched to UX, I mostly…
