Forgotten by design
The following collection of articles shows how deeply-rooted cultural and systemic bias against women can run.
Conference rooms change culture
Change must be fused into people's daily lives and become a new type of habit which is not only embraced by an individual but by the rest of the culture around them.
Worker Cogs
The commodification of workers has been happening for a long while, but the articles collected here show just how much working people today are seen as interchangeable cogs in a corporate machine.
Game Changing
In choosing what our future looks like with streaming services, technology can shape us or we can shape it.
Design is murder
If the “means/motive/opportunity” framework is crucial in fictional (and even real) detection, in design it can crack the case of both defining the problem and developing solutions.
Express your needs
What follows are a series of quotes from each of these books, which I’ve grouped around the ideas of empathy, thinking for yourself, listening, and stating your needs.
One Way Traffic
Oftentimes technology is painted as progress and but it can simply mean the generation of more objects or data in the world.
The power to question
But what if we stressed the method: the skills to question, observe, and listen? How would we view the history of our world and what has shaped it?
Social media, the new smoking
The only constant is change. In the same way that in 2018 it seems to most of us like a bad idea to take up smoking, I hope that social media will also seem like a similarly poor choice in the next few years.
Way Finder
The journey is to be enjoyed but before you can take it, you need to find out where you are right now, which is a journey in itself.
Read, Curate, Write
The art of this literary curation, of gathering your reading into one place, is a starting point to help you find your own voice as a writer.
Experience First
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience, and work backwards to the technology” - Steve Jobs
The best team in the world
You make your own best team, and this may or may not be your work team.
Intent driven design
Focusing on a user’s intent allows you as a designer to look into the future and predict what the user will need and when.
Design Proofreading
I have created a framework I call “design proofreading,” to allow people to navigate this new world of mass media and object production.
Tools That Shape Us
There seem to be many tools to make your life easier, but very few to help you get smarter and learn more.
Design first
The current human-centered design process is essential: research, ideate, solution, test, and repeat. This is the wrong order. How can you research if you don't have a well-defined question?