350: Designing Misused Features

This week, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design. Spoiler: hard problems are hard. This, plus The Sidebar, some follow up, and cool things as always.Golden Ratio Patrons:Visualize who’s working on what and when, and drag and drop to assign tasks in a click. With Float you can plan your projects and schedule your team’s time with confidence. Learn more at float.com/designdetailsLatest VIP Patrons:Huge shoutouts to our latest Very Important Pixels!Douglas HillGabe de la MoraJames JacksonCassidy CheangCameron DeardorffJessica TongBailey JenningsKrisOla DrachalNate Kehdactra-ChongMathias KlugeBenMaggie ManvilleAndy NgoMatt CoolThe Sidebar:The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to full episodes going forward! Sign up at https://patreon.com/designdetails.In this week's Sidebar, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design.Follow-up:Keep donating:Black Lives MatterNAACP Legal Defense and Educational FundEqual Justice InitiativeWe the ProtestersReclaim the BlockGeorge Floyd Memorial FundCampaign ZeroStand Against Racial InjusticeMinnesota Freedom FundKeep reading:An Antiracist Reading ListWhat Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have SaidTrevor Noah on George Floyd and the Protests + part 2How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real ChangeA thread on design historyCross-cultural DesignMismatch - How Inclusion Shapes DesignAlgorithms of OppressionHow to be AntiracistSo You Want to Talk About RaceTeaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of FreedomThe Culture MapBlack Designers: Missing in ActionIndustry Talk:Trump was fact checkedFYI: mail-in ballots are not particularly prone to fraud.Twitter Finally Fact-Checked Trump. It’s a Bit of a MessThis reminded us of the Streisand EffectThe Illusory Truth Effect is "the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure."Richard Gere and the Gerbil"A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - get the facts on this quote. Spoiler: "At this time, there is no substantive support for assigning the saying to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill.'Hindsight Bias "refers to the common tendency for people to perceive events that have already occurred as having been more predictable than they actually were before the events took place."Is Facebook Spying on You?Cool Things:Brian shared Revision Path, a weekly podcast interviewing black creators. If you need more podcasts for your ears, check it out!Marshall shared Jacob Collier, a musical genius with some truly unbelievable talents. Dig in, friends.Video: Modulating from E to G Half SharpDesign Details on the Web:📻 We are @designdetailsfm🎙 Brian is @brian_lovin🎙 Marshall is @marshallbock📬 Don't have Twitter? Email us at [email protected]🙌 Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunesStay safe, see you next week, goodbye!