Tagging: Design

1. Jason Mesut on Shaping Design, Giving Back, and Being an Ex-DJ

   In this very first episode of the UX Fika podcast, I sit down with the brilliant Jason Mesut – a creative coach, a strategic consultant, a community connector, and a shaper of designers.

2. Cennydd Bowles on Prototyping the Future, Ethics in Design, and Lessons from Chess

   In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I talk to Cennydd Bowles, technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recently a Fulbright Scholar. Cennydd advises companies like Google, Mozilla, and the BBC on how to build more responsible, ethical, and inclusive technologies – and in this conversation, which just like the rest of season 1 is from 2021, we unpack how and why that work is more urgent than ever.

3. The Documentary Podcast – In the Studio: Brian Eno

   A fascinating window into Brian Eno’s design process and using his work for social good.

4. Prototyping self-expression

   Sketching out some ideas for making the Research by the Sea lanyard something that attendees might want to keep for later rather than throw away.

   

5. Coglode Newsletter

   The latest Coglode newsletter combines of my 2 favourite things; Japanese culture and behavioral research analysis. Excellent stuff from our-man-in-Japan Jerome Ribot.

6. Material Matters – Bas van Abel – Repair and conflict minerals

   Great conversation with Fairphone founder Bas van Abel about the trials and tribulations of starting a business and product focused on longevity, repairability and ethically sourced minerals.

   If consumerism was a religion we’d all be extremists.

7. PaperNet Boarding Pass

   A fantastic example of playful design and elevating the value artifacts based on the context of use. By Brian Suda and the creative folks at https://optional.is/.

8. 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.

9. Metadesign For Murph — dConstruct Audio Archive

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

10. AI Fireside Chat - Scott Salisbury and Matt Garbutt - DIBI Conference 2023.

    Thirty minutes of honest conversation about the inputs and outputs of machine learning, what drives our motivation to use it and the ethics of our choices. There were some really interesting questions from a research standpoint that makes me want to track down the other talks.

11. 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!

12. WCAG for designers

    @gerireid’s designer’s accessibility checklist for working toward WCAG standards.

13. S.C.U.L.P.T. – Accessibility Guidance

    Helen Wilson’s accessibility guidance for working with text, images and tables.

14. Designing accessible services

    @ukhomeoffice’s guidelines on designing accessible services and urls to a set of accessibility posters.