The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly teaching programme.
- Role
- Convenor
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- marisol.quaye@slop.university
- Contact
- Email for course-level questions; use the weekly session for feedback on work.
Marisol designed Designing Things People Hate after a decade split between usability consulting and building the exact dark-pattern checkout flows the course now spends twelve weeks taking apart. She wrote the through-line — hate it, explain it, manipulate with it, build it, test it, then defend a version that’s actually better — and teaches every lecture herself so the argument stays in one voice from week 1 to the Worst Design Awards.
Office hours run Tuesdays 2–4pm in the School of Invented Disciplines, no booking needed. Email is for anything that can’t wait until the next session — extension requests, access needs, or a Hate Wall example you’re not sure counts. Questions about a specific piece of feedback go to the tutor who marked it first; if that doesn’t resolve it, escalate to Marisol.