Tragic Design
The impact of bad product design and how to fix it
Tragic Design launched on May 11, 2017 with 131 votes, #292 of 3,229 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
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Tragic Design is a book about how bad design is everywhere and it can harm people is very serious ways.
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Hey everyone! After two long years of writing along side my co-author, we have finally released the book: Tragic Design. It's about the true impact of bad design and how to fix it. We felt there was a need to shed light on the discussion of Design Ethics by exploring the ways bad design can harm people and offering up solutions. When most of us think about bad design, we think the worst case is lost customers. This book explores the very real impact it has: physical harm, emotional harm, and more. We are excited to have John Maeda writing the Foreword to the book, who has been a long…
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