Everything is awful: staying sane and doing good in a world gone mad

Everything is awful: staying sane and doing good in a world gone mad

Nicola du Toit

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Let’s be honest - the world seems pretty awful right now. Design has been swallowed up by the corporate machine, we’re regurgitating patterns and libraries so everything looks the same, and AI has finally arrived (disguised as bunnies on a trampoline) to take our jobs. Meanwhile we're all burned out, questioning our impact, seriously considering homesteading, and wondering how the hell we ended up designing for profit instead of people. This talk is a reality check and a pep talk rolled into one. We'll dig into how design has lost its way, why it's not entirely our fault, and most importantly, what we can actually do about it in our day-to-day work, in order to stay sane. No LinkedIn memes, no corporate jargon - just an honest conversation about getting back to designing things that don't suck for the humans who have to use them.

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