Best quotes by Tristan Harris on Design

Checkout quotes by Tristan Harris on Design

  • I was a design ethicist at Google, where I studied how do you ethically steer people's thoughts? Because what we don't talk about is how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today.
    - Tristan Harris
  • I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole lab at Stanford that teaches students how to apply persuasive psychology principles into technology to persuade people to use products in a certain way.
    - Tristan Harris
  • We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to need help from designers, because knowing this stuff doesn't help. We're going to need design help.
    - Tristan Harris
  • For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.
    - Tristan Harris
  • I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people's minds from getting hijacked.
    - Tristan Harris