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Proposition: All design is hostile design, otherwise it would just be engineering, fully determined by functional considerations. The only thing that changes is the target of the hostility.
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I mean hostile design in the sense of anti-homeless spikes. Where free design variables are used against some class of people rather than just left free.
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Ah, I think I gotcha. Every design choice makes a thing harder to use for *somebody*? Like, e.g., phones got bigger because most people like that, but it's terrible for people with small hands?
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