Category: Reading List

• It’s Not Only Women Who Want More Intimacy in Relationships
• Skill Mapping: A Digital Template for Remote Teams
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living

  What enabled me to take part in the effort to free our daughters and sons to achieve whatever their talents equipped them to accomplish, with no artificial barriers blocking their way? First, a mother who, by her example, made reading a delight and counseled me constantly to “be independent,” able to fend for myself, whatever fortune might have in store for me.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Being Smart is Not Enough

• What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks
• The power of flexible consistency

  Life is chaotic. Things will go wrong. Flexible consistency is about combining proactive planning with reactive adaptation so you can make significant progress over the long-term.

  Anne-Laure Le Cunff

• UX Designer Career Path: How to Become a UX Designer
• Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work

• The Digital Product Ethics Canvas

  But for change to happen, somebody has to make a start somewhere. And whilst a Product Manager, UX Designer or Information Architect might not be the person to ultimately call the shots on product and corporate strategy decisions, they are increasingly often young and morally conscious enough to at least care enough about their users to actually raise the issue and create awareness.

  Robert Gerlach

• Issue 2: How can junior designers get more experience?

  So have some reasonable expectations of yourself and don’t beat yourself up if you’re not good at half of this list. Get really good at the stuff you like and enjoy doing by finding opportunities that let you do those things.

  Mark Johnson

• How design contributes to toxic individualism, and what can be done about it
• The Economics of the Front-End
• The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help
• Large windows and cantilevers animate House on 36th by Beebe Skidmore
• Design resources I recommend
• DesignBase
• Degreeless.design

• What the ‘meat paradox’ reveals about moral decision making

  We know that poverty causes great suffering, yet instead of sharing our wealth we buy another pair of expensive shoes. We fundamentally disagree with the idea of child labour or adults working under horrible conditions, but keep shopping at discount stores. We stay in the dark, to protect our delicate identities, to maintain the illusion that we are consistent and ethically sensible human beings.

  Julia Shaw

• Disrespectful Design—Users aren’t stupid or lazy
• Not So Simple
• When Technology Takes Revenge
• Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn’t Mean
• Adjacent skills: how to widen your career perspective

• Your career isn’t the only measurement of success — Maurice Woods

  For others that may be facing a similar situation, I urge you to find what matters to you most. Life is short and careers are not the only measurement of success. If you are looking for the freedom to do the work you want to do at a company, find the role that suits your needs and let that guide your spirit in the direction that leads to a healthier, productive life.

  Maurice Woods

• How I Finally Got to Know My Father by Asking About His Past
• Embracing the tension between code and design

• What is the Value of Browser Diversity?
• Designers: design less, think more
• The Power of Structure – A Guide to Design System Models

I am attracted to the idea of sharing video tutorials but not the thought of editing it for very long hours. Although I have RE:Creation, I feel like there are intricacies in tutorials that can be captured by video — but also, written documentation can be as intricate. And so, I embarked in searching for streaming apps and also found other stuff!

• Open Broadcasting Software (OBS)
• DroidCam
• Spark AR Studio
• Obsidian

• Accordion Icons: Which Signifiers Work Best?
• A clean start for the web
• Use data to think, together @ Observable
• The case against diverging stacked bars
• Usability of Footnotes
• 31 Reasons Why (we should quit Facebook)
• The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

  They are what philosopher Harry Frankfurt would call “bullshitters.” Those that are giving advice for the sake of giving advice, without any regard as to how it is actually implemented, if it can even be implemented at all.

  Sean Blanda

• No true Scotsman