-_- really? Industrial, UX and UI designers are manipulators now? Is Jony Ive the head manipulator?

There are more ways to communicate than a black and white wall of text. One of them is called language of design. That's why designers use visual language to communicate with their users.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that all design was manipulative. It's so often abused to hide manipulation though I'd rather just go without and I know I'm not alone.

> UX and UI designers are manipulators now? of course not, but usually web pages creation is driven by marketing, so in most cases "sell" stuff has much more priority than actual UX/UI. So usually UX scarified for marketing needs (even UX and UI designers gains that).

>Industrial, UX and UI designers are manipulators now

Yes. When their hands are guided by PMs and marketing managers they are more often than not.