
…k to their old lives for just one day I guarantee you they would design their products differently. And that’s what a veil of ignorance is all about. It’s about designing a system where you could ultimately be getting the shit end of the stick. Empathy is about trying to put yourself in other people’s shoes in an existing system. The veil of …
An aside: Interestingly, one of the facts rarely mentioned in the mythos of the Bauhaus was how notoriously sexist the school was — women were denied instruction in architecture, graphic design and product design and were instead relegated to the field of textile design.