How We Designed the Soul Out of Everything [26:11] by Design Theory (www.youtube.com)

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Video essay on how the hyper-focus in design on convenience and concealing the inner workings of things in everything can influence people individually and society more broadly.

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00:00 Intro
1:12 Seamlessness=Thoughtless Reflex
3:20 Limbic Capitalism
5:58 Connection Breakdown
8:08 Sponsor Skip
9:23 Convenient Flattening
11:37 Non-Places
12:41 Destruction of Curiosity
15:01 Destruction of Personal Agency & Relationships
19:30 Convenience is NOT the Highest Virtue of Design
23:25 The Age of Empathy

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Funny how he talks about design making products seamless and convenient and how that’s bad for us and then he switches to the sponsor of this video praising how it’s seamless and convenient.

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