{"id":1886,"date":"2019-04-04T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:30:06","slug":"how-good-design-failed-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/how-good-design-failed-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Good Design Failed Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/how-good-design-failed-us\">The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1958, the American radical sociologist C. Wright Mills was invited to address the International Design Conference, in Aspen. The lecture he gave, \u201cMan in the Middle: The Designer,\u201d criticized a number of its audience members for being willing dupes in the grand illusion that was consumer society. \u201cWants do not originate in some vague realms of the consumer\u2019s personality,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are formed by an elaborate apparatus of jingle and fashion, of persuasion and fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Jony Ive, of Apple, a self-proclaimed adept of <a href=\"\/dieter-rams-documentary\">Rams<\/a>, lovingly crafts smooth, chamfered edges for his company\u2019s world-conquering products. The aesthetic is precise, alluring\u2014but the objects are designed to meet a suspiciously early obsolescence. Indeed, most of the things that we hold in our hands and stare at, day after day, are examples of \u201cgood design\u201d\u2014great design, even, in terms of their inextricability from life. But more and more their social benefit seems questionable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Yorker: In 1958, the American radical sociologist C. Wright Mills was invited to address the International Design Conference, in Aspen. The lecture he gave, \u201cMan in the Middle: The Designer,\u201d criticized a number of its audience members for being willing dupes in the grand illusion that was consumer society. \u201cWants do not originate&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/how-good-design-failed-us\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}