Tagging: Culture

1. The Clearleft Podcast: Measuring Design

   The smart folks at Clearleft and co. discuss what can, can’t, should and shouldn’t be measured of design and user experiences.

2. Metadesign For Murph — dConstruct Audio Archive

   John Willshire’s musings of designing for a future we can’t see from 2015 dConstruct conference.

3. New book! Dr. Smartphone: An Ethnography of Mobile Phone Repair Shops.

   An absolutely fascinating look at the the culture of mobile phone repair shops. I want this book!

4. TBM 50/53: The Curse of Success Metrics

   @johncutlefish shares his observations of why teams find success metrics challenging and how to help them make more impactful progress.

   1. Uncertainty is a good thing, it means there is opportunity to learn and make change.
   2. Be flexible. Follow the spirit of experimentation and try something different.
   3. Create a culture of safe failure and encouraged learning.

   Consider the term "success metric". We've already jinxed the effort. We are already afraid of failing and learning.

5. Virtual Meetings: How to reduce cultural anxiety

   @drjcurran’s anthropologist view of remote meetings and 6 tips for reducing anxiety of remote meetings.