Presenting another collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks. This week’s topics include design and user experience, research, business, organizational culture, technology, culture [change] and society and anthropology.
Design and User Experience
Alexandrian Design | Alan Cooper
Facebook is wrong, text is deathless | Kottke.org
Six things user experience designers forget when they criticize websites | Usability Counts
The Reason Twitter’s Losing Active Users | Harvard Business Review
Research
Don’t share that Daily Mail link about archaeology. Just…don’t. | Powered by Osteons
Tinder has an in-house sociologist and her job is to figure out what you want | Los Angeles Magazine
Business
The first rule of pricing is: you do not talk about pricing | Tom Whitwell
You are in the software business. Whether you like it or not. | Perception is the Experience
Japan’s Ultra-Polite Taxi Drivers Are Worried Uber Will Undermine Traditions | Motherboard
Inside Uber’s Auto-Lease Machine, Where Almost Anyone Can Get a Car | Bloomberg
Organizational Culture
How the Most Successful People Poop at Work | Fast Company
Conference rage: How did something as truly awful as panel discussions become the default format? | Duncan Green, London School of Economics and Political Science
Technology
An engineering anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills | Ethnography Matters
The Moral Economy of Tech | Idle Words
Stop using Google Trends: Alternatively titled ‘Be aware of context, and maybe start using Google AdWords instead’ | Danny Page
Machine Bias: There’s software being used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. | Pro Publica
In a world of self-driving cars, we’ll still need the Miata | Wired
Culture [Change] and Society
Knowing a Country: A Post-Brexit Polemic | EPIC
Anthropology, Brexit and Xenophobia in Europe | Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
If your argument is based on economics, you’ve already lost | Harvard Business Review
McDonald’s: You can sneer, but it’s the glue that holds communities together | The Guardian
I was never raped | Kim Saumell
The Families that Can’t Afford Summer | The New York Times
Uber and Airbnb really are for the wealthy and well-educated | Alison Griswold
Anthropology
Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers | Savage Minds
Anthropology Blogs 2016 | Anthropology Report
Photo (“Open Range”) by Isaac Sachs
These are awesome. As an anthropologist working in tech within a research center studying organizational culture and effectiveness, a lot of these are right up my alley!
Thanks for reading, Carrie!