Four Design Links:
July 22, 2010
Four Design Links is a review of the design- and ethics-related stories we've been reading online this week. This week: questioning humanitarian design, patterns for influencing behavior, the ethics of overdraft fees, and a video of a pay-bench.
1. Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?
A thought-provoking essay from Bruce Nussbaum over at Fast Company Design:
Do designers need to better see themselves through the eyes of the local professional and business classes who believe their countries are rising as the U.S. and Europe fall and wonder who, in the end, has the right answers? Might Indian, Brazilian and African designers have important design lessons to teach Western designers?
And finally, one last question: why are we only doing humanitarian design in Asia and Africa and not Native American reservations or rural areas, where standards of education, water and health match the very worst overseas?
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