Hey all - I'm about to be on Minnesota Public Radio to talk about algorithmic bias and why it matters to all of us:
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A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
The CIA is now a tech company.
★ Here’s a scrolling story ~thing~ I made about newsletters, writing on the web, and where we go from here
If you are in an online dev class or maybe a dev bootcamp and it teaches inaccessible practices, I think it is fair to demand a refund. And warn others away. It may be harming your longer-term skills and career growth, too.
"If behavioural ads aren’t more effective than contextual ads, what is all of that data collected for? "If websites opted for a context ads and privacy-focused analytics approach, cookie banners could become obsolete…"
No one in Hollywood will release a film about the murder of #Khashoggi--really @reedhastings, @JeffBezos, @tim_cook, @RobertIger, @hbomax? None of you want to stream a Doc with 97% on @RottenTomatoes?! Idea: you all pay 20% & stream together on same day
This annual list by @rokwon is always incredible. Buy some books, learn some things, change your world:
Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.
Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.
Power. Money. Lies. Are you ready for justice? Watch #TheDissident, from the Academy Award winning director of Icarus, on @appletv today:
RT @s_DesignTools: A walkthrough in what Design Research means nowadays - touching upon distancing, practice maturity and data abundance - and what to stand for in our work. Thanks @serota for finding the perfect words
I don’t get it, can he not just stick a Wordpress instance on and blog on his own website to reach hundreds of millions of people using RSS?!
Oh hey, yesterday I wrote about some good practices for embedding tweets in articles / posts, particularly geared toward making them accessible. Or available when a certain autocrat gets banned.
As white supremacists continue coups/militia actions & Tr_mp is banned from social media, folks are worried about the internet as an alleged free speech zone. This is a crucial time to engage the work of Dr. @JessieNYC — especially her book Cyber Racism.
Your semi-annual installment of ... Hire More Designers, OK?
I realize the irony of wanting to buy things from a brand that is all about decluttering. But as a fan of containers and the Konmari method, this new collaboration SPARKS JOY! I particularly like the Clarity collection. 😉
(500) https://behavioralscientist.org/there-is-more-to-behavioral-science-than-biases-and-fallacies/
"A widespread misconception is that biases explain or even produce behavior. They don’t—they describe behavior."
The Drupal 10 readiness initiative - here we go; session video and slides now published
In this article, @TedGoas explains why every design project should start in a Google Doc.
Prudent answer: Massive fit. I think if we can apply artificial intelligence to the big data that comes from social listening we can understand everything. I see no need for any other form of research. It’s about turning insights into action in real time.
Super interesting article on helping your senior leadership team set targets and hold them to account.
🧼 "Foam is a knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on @Code & @github. You can use Foam for organising your research, keeping re-discoverable notes, writing long-form content and, optionally, publishing it to the web."
@PavelASamsonov I really encourage you to read Brian Lawson's work, and to realize IDEO did not invent it, nor is their definition cannoical.
After years of volunteer effort (especially on the accessibility side) from the WordPress community on Gutenberg, Automattic is gonna monetize the shit out of it now.
@TheDavidHoll @jeppekruse @cwodtke I suddenly can't find it but this article mentions some of it
You know that whole "progress studies", "time to build" thing? Do you want to work on some *actual examples* of big, important, manufacturing projects?
Watching this again: Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene via @3qd likely the best filter blog on the Internet
I wrote something new for you. ✎ My Glamorous Life: In which I am vaccinated
I have never seen so many tab and slider components on the same page before: UX controversy aside, I do like the design variations — no one is like the other. A couple of those tabs components are pretty nice. 💡
Why Tailwind Isn’t For Me #CSS
The circular economy is about responsibility, maintenance, care, sharing, reuse. You make it you own it. We must take responsibility for the things we do in digital. Not simply to create and launch but also to maintain, improve, archive, delete.
🎉 New essay reflecting on my experiences so far as an "independent researcher"—ill-defined though that term is.
“Many aspects of our social system serve as filtering mechanisms, determining which interactions happen and between whom, and thus which social patterns people are in a position to observe.”
“Ideological thinking turns us away from the world of lived experience, starves the imagination, denies plurality, and destroys the space between men that allows them to relate to one another in meaningful ways.”
Let's do a quick #a11y review of the first website for each voting category for @AWWWARDS' best of 2020.
This looks like a 4k word story about a database, but it's really about how the government *can* build capacity to battle the pandemic. We didn't know which hospitals were in trouble. Now, we do. How'd that happen?
“If a global advertising company leverages its vast array of dossiers on its two billion users to invite antidemocratic forces to infest its channels with disinformation, democratic states should move to break it up." Siva Vaidhyanathan
Do you think vaccine band-aid ads are dystopian? I dunno, seems fun. You can learn more about the program at
Their one recommendation that works in the US is
“Anger is the first thing I feel because they eliminated my job during a pandemic and the reason they gave us is 'cost-cutting’.” Instacart is firing the 10 employees who voted last year to form a union.
A beautiful essay on the multifaceted nature of Tahrir Square: "Tahrir has the two faces of Egypt. It is the face of the bureaucratic state, and it is the place where people make revolutions. They complement each other — maybe.”
"The Plague Year" is so monumental that it has taken me weeks of scraps of time to read it carefully—I finally printed out all billion pages so I could focus. I'm going to thread some of the things that particularly caught my attention.
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Breaking the seal. Because I am mean to seals and plan to get back to writing more frequently.
There has never been a music video that hit me as hard as this one. I have never identified with a character in a music video as much as I identified with this homeless physicist. It is true, some problems you must be insane or (close to it) to solve.
“I see some tweets from people I know, but a robot locked in a basement somewhere decided the order of this particular timeline, so I don’t trust it” — @rands on using Twitter with Tweetdeck to find & follow info
“Put content at the heart of your design process.” Intriguing! Introducing punkt, a suite of content-focused UX tools. P.S. The little guy down in the corner is familiar to me.
I said this in a panel discussion earlier, but if the fundamental question of the web is "Why wasn't I consulted?"* then I think the fundamental question of #civictech is "Why can't we just...?" *from this 2011 @ftrain piece (that you should read)
We're all striving for perfection but the truth is in design you never quite get it.
"Leaders are orchestrators of systems, and systems instantiate knowledge as information architecture within them. So, the IA that gets embedded and coded, baked into your systems, becomes the way that the organization understands the world." @jjg
One of my favorite things about workin’ at Sentry is *constantly* talking about performance. It's how we design stuff, how we build stuff, how we refactor things. So many companies don't get it: fast ain’t a feature, it's what good software is
If your organization is asking "but how do we evaluate our research practice?"