Ramesh Srinivasan on Smartphone Addiction

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss app designers' motives with author and professor Ramesh Srinivasan. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	Dominimists.
0:02.0	Hmm.
0:03.2	Design is supposed to resolve usability problems.
0:06.2	Yeah.
0:06.6	Why then are our apps and devices creating more anxiety
0:11.0	within each use?
0:12.7	Because they're designed for the outcomes
0:15.0	that the companies want.
0:16.3	And design's not just about usability.
0:18.1	It's about your designing for particular life experiences
0:21.6	and outcomes.
0:22.6	And designers have to are not necessarily,
0:25.8	like we were just talking about user experience.
0:28.3	Designers are not inherently there to serve.
0:32.6	Their users are their customers.
0:34.4	Designers are there to enact a particular sort of mission
0:37.8	that is articulated to them.
0:39.6	So design in that sense is an ability
0:42.1	to fuse between the engineering world and the experiential
0:46.4	world.
0:47.0	And I have a PhD in design studies.
0:48.8	So for me, design is all about the process
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