Aral Balkan<p>If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.</p><p>Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleNotUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peopleNotUsers</span></a></p>