Presenting another installment of a collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks (recently renamed from “What I’ve been reading lately – the not-so-weekly digest”.) Topics include design, research, user experience, anthropology, business, organizational culture, technology, careers, culture [change] and society, and other great stuff.
Design
IDEO.org’s free 7-week course on user-centered design
Designing better digital file organization
So you want to be an information architect?
A handy guide to levels of prototype fidelity
Melinda Gates on why user-centered design is essential for improving people’s lives
Research
Why designers should research and researchers should design
How to make a research wall when you don’t have a wall
User Experience
A comprehensive list of UX, UXD, HCD, HCI, and IA degrees
Anthropology
My two years as an anthropologist on the Photoshop team
Prime of Life: The Story of My 20s, as Told in Amazon Purchases
The 7 deadly sins of the Human Terrain System: An insider’s perspective
Mentoring the next generation of practicing anthropologists
Dick Powis on anthropology blogging
Race and Rachel Dolezal: A Conversation with Patricia Sunderland
Is Netflix’s in-house anthropologist just an “ornamental academic”?
Business
“Compassionate capitalism,” or, “what if Mother Teresa drove a Ferrari?”
This Ad’s For You: The story of Tom Burrell, one of the first black men in American Advertising
Costco to Offer Wholesale Marijuana by Summer
Be glad you’re not in the dying greeting card business
In Search of the Red Cross’ $500 Million in Haiti Relief
Organizational Culture
The wording of a job description can impact on hiring and gender inclusion
Why calling out someone in your group can make it stronger
Annoying tech jargon to remove from your vocabulary
22% of Millennials ranked training & development as most valuable workplace benefit
Technology
On the visual web, a photo is worth more than 1,000 words
Autonomous cars will destroy millions of jobs and reshape the US economy by 2025
Computer Programs for the Kitchen, 1984
The Fruit of Weak Ties: researchers find active Tweeters with diverse networks have better ideas
New McDonald’s In Phoenix Run Entirely By Robots, 50 times faster than average human employee
Careers
40% of U.S. workers have contingent jobs according to the U.S. government
3 tricky UX job interview questions and how to handle them
5 pros share how they got into the field of UX
9 ways to be a great UX practitioner
Culture [Change] and Society
Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell on the “uselessness” of the #WomenInTech meme
“But you don’t look like…” A woman goes to Harvard Business School
Baltimore youth train police officers on how to interact with them
Other Great Stuff
Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave
A day in the life of a deaf person
An interview with the artist behind the covers of 90s book series Goosebumps
Photo by Isaac Sachs
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