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A radical view of UX is that all UX is decisions about what parts of the human brain to destroy by design. At its best it is brain surgery. At worst it's a bludgeoning.
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This is kinda why I'm deeply ambivalent about the idea of products hacking attention and "dark patterns"... ALL good UX does that. The difference is entirely in the alignment of interests between designer and user, not in the effect on the brain.
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this is reminding me of a discussion about porn, consent, ethics, etc. something like... we are all selling to / manipulating each other all the time anyway (alt: we are already gods!!,,), we might as well get good at it / skilfulness is the real thing that matters
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