This text seeks to point out the way in which design, in its technically oriented version, has acted as a modernization agent and thus has helped to cultivate a few forms of production of reality from exclusion and fragmentation of the subject, of his relationship with himself, with the other and with the environment. This occurs as it assumes a few abstract assumptions of civilization, detached from political power, with a limited historical perspective and disdain for the particularity of the communities, in order to be able to adopt a modern attitude. These forms still permeate the epistemology of the field, making it necessary for current practice to fulfill the difficult task of reviewing itself, in the light of a complex and uncertain reality that contrasts with some untenable legacies of linear and ascending progress. Considering these assumptions and recognizing what becomes invisible with their enunciation is what calls this text, since design, as an heir to a colonial facet that accompanies the modern and capitalist times, acquires an exclusive character that will turn violent as it constitutes its theories through a few disclaimers to otherness.