Ethics + Education + Power + Design with Mike Monteiro — DT101 E114

<p dir="ltr">Mike Monteiro is a designer and the author of Ruined By Design, You're My Favorite Client, The Collected Angers, and the newly-revised Design is a Job.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Listen to learn about:</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Mike’s book, Design is a Job</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Ethics in design</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Designing society so that ethical behavior becomes the norm</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Our Guest</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design. He mostly writes these days. His latest book is the second edition of Design Is a Job.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">[00:39] How Mike got into design during graduate school.</p> <p dir="ltr">[03:54] His first job in desktop publishing and printing taught him to measure work in 30-minute increments.</p> <p dir="ltr">[06:04] Moving into writing books.</p> <p dir="ltr">[07:32] Mike’s book, Design is a Job, was written to help designers with the ins and outs of being a professional designer.</p> <p dir="ltr">[10:57] Why Mike felt it was time to revise the book.</p> <p dir="ltr">[13:23] The “revised” edition changed so much, it’s basically a different book.</p> <p dir="ltr">[14:33] Mike talks about some of the new ideas in the revised edition.</p> <p dir="ltr">[15:12] Designers moving from contractors to employees.</p> <p dir="ltr">[18:02] The importance of ethical behavior and ethical decisions.</p> <p dir="ltr">[18:15] Mike’s butcher metaphor.</p> <p dir="ltr">[24:35] What companies and society can do to create an environment that encourages ethical behavior.</p> <p dir="ltr">[26:52] The first steps on the path to a more ethical world.</p> <p dir="ltr">[30:58] Finding his place in the semi post-pandemic world.</p> <p dir="ltr">[34:13] Knowing when it’s time to get off