UX Book Club Sydney - June 2019 - "Ruined by Design"

If you love UX and want to read about and discuss it, UX Book Club Sydney is for you! It is a fun, friendly and relaxed event where you can meet other people working in the industry. We have drinks and snacks and talk about our latest book and the themes in it.

We run the meetup as a discussion forum rather than a lecture. But if you don't get through the whole book, don't fret! With help from our attendees, we will do our best to provide a summary so everyone can follow along with the discussion.

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For the next meetup we will be reading Ruined By Design by Mike Monteiro:

"The world is working exactly as designed.
The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their “real names” initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitter’s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it’s designed to work.
The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all."

Please pass this invite along to anyone who might be interested and we'll see everyone in June!

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About our sponsor

Elabor8 is a consulting company that helps speed the creation of customer value through a focus on people, teams and organisational agility. Our whole-of-business approach is focused on building knowledge, uplifting capability and identifying efficiency improvements across technology, product innovation and design, agile delivery and advisory. 

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Confession! Not everyone has always read the book, but you can always find a few summaries online and come ready to talk about things anyway. We'd love to have you!