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Forgotten by design

The following collection of articles shows how deeply-rooted cultural and systemic bias against women can run.

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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.

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Be kind

Being kind is a practice, not a gift, and in times like this, it is important to practice that skill to help yourself and your families through this most unique and difficult of times.

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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.

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Game Changing

In choosing what our future looks like with streaming services, technology can shape us or we can shape it.

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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. 

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Grey Space

Too often, people look for black and white answers to complex problems.

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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. 

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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. 

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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?

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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Experience First

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience, and work backwards to the technology” - Steve Jobs

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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? 

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