Tagging: Design

1. 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.

2. 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/.

3. 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.

4. Metadesign For Murph — dConstruct Audio Archive

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

5. 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.

6. 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!

7. WCAG for designers

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

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

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

9. Designing accessible services

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