Tragic Design
A book about the cost of bad design and how we can fix it.
Tragic Design launched on June 25, 2015 with 61 votes, #1,060 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
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Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. In this thought-provoking book, authors Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier explain how poorly designed products can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill people who use them. The designers responsible certainly didn’t intend harm, so what can you do to avoid making similar mistakes?
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