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Dear Design Student
deardesignstudent.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Dear Design Student is a design-ethics blog by Mike Monteiro, covering designers' responsibilities, professional codes of ethics, and getting paid.
What HN saysCommenters recommend it on tech ethics, citing the Designer's Code of Ethics and 'Ethics can't be a side hustle', and call Monteiro's talks opinionated and entertaining.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Ethics can’t be a side hustle9 people · 145 points · first shared 2017 · 102 comments on HN
- 2A Designer’s Code of Ethics4 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Ethics and paying rent2 people · 14 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 4In Praise of the AK-472 people · 11 points · first shared 2015 · 11 comments on HN
- 5Dear Design Student: 8 Reasons to Turn Down That Startup Job2 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Reasons to Turn Down That Startup Job1 people · 102 points · first shared 2015 · 46 comments on HN
- 7Why I didn't even read your Résumé1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8Ten things you need to learn in design school1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Two Weeks Notice Is for Sandwich Artists1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 10What Conference Organizers Are Afraid Of1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Get Paid – Dear Design Student1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12Balancing Act Finding – or losing – equilibrium in your work1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13Why is so much of design school a waste of time?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14In Defense of CSS1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15The secret cost of research1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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bigiain · 2018-03-19
100% agree with everything you say here.
I strongly recommend:
https://deardesignstudent.com/a-designers-code-of-ethics-f4a88aca9e95
and:
https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac7289549017
from someone who's done _way_ more thinking about these sorts of issues than I have...
jakelazaroff · 2020-05-05
I disagree with this. Your 9–5 spent powering the machine that mistreats these workers probably vastly outweighs whatever wins you're able to eke out on nights and weekends. See also "Ethics can't be a side hustle" [0]
[0] https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-cant-be-a-side-hustle-b9e78c090ae…
VengefulCynic · 2019-05-09
Mike Monteiro has a series of very opinionated (and highly-entertaining) presentations on this phenomenon, coming from the perspective of a designer. If what neilv is saying resonates with you, you owe it to yourself to check out the Designer Code of Ethics: https://deardesignstudent.com/a-designers-code-of-ethics-f4a88aca9e95
Invictus0 · 2018-03-20
Ethics can't be a side hustle.
https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-cant-be-a-side-hustle-b9e78c090ae…
flamingbuffalo · 2016-05-31
reminds me of this:
https://deardesignstudent.com/in-praise-of-the-ak-47-a24cc8a46c13#.it9…
mahyarm · 2017-05-24
Startups aren't that special, and I lost a lot of income by doing small startups first as an employee for 4/5 years.
Startups even in successful cases are just break even working at AFGAM. Usually you'll quickly be throwing away $100k/yr in income instead. And that $60k/yr your not putting in your stock brokerage account you could of used for whatever bootstrapped digital business or financial independence base you could of done instead. Over 8 years the difference can mean a literal million dollars in the bank.
Working at AFGAM won't make you lose your soul, and you'll learn a lot of stuff that you wouldn't learn in a startup. If you work at both types, you'll quickly realize that working at a SV startup and working at Twitter or FB is not that much different.
A lot of startups have fun, but writing bad disposable code is the standard operating procedure. Mentorship is usually non-existent. Wanting to write something quality is usually difficult to get approved because you might die tomorrow. Long hours are very typical.
I would also suggesting looking at this article: https://deardesignstudent.com/8-reasons-to-turn-down-that-startup-job-… , #4 is especially relevant.