{"id":2319,"date":"2021-01-29T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T09:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T09:48:44","slug":"user-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/user-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"User Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Creative Good, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativegood.com\/blog\/21\/losing-faith-in-ux.html\">Mark Hurst<\/a>, says User Experience is now &#8220;User Exploitation.&#8221; And without user experience design, we now have unusable government websites for vaccination sign-ups.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The unholy rebirth of UX has had a staggering cost. It&#8217;s well beyond the stupid hassle of [Amazon] Prime cancellations, and even beyond the Big Tech criminality I&#8217;ve written about. In the end, turning UX into an actively harmful discipline has drained talent and expertise away from projects that could, and should, have had more help&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re headed into a dangerous time, when our society is run on digital platforms, and UX isn&#8217;t leading the way to ensure that those tools are usable. While the best-trained (and highest-paid) UX professionals are put to work optimizing the exploitation and deception of online users&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the end, turning UX into an actively harmful discipline has drained talent and expertise away from projects that could, and should, have had more help\u2026","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[25,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"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=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}