Diversity bias
Design inspiration series. This week: diversity bias in the tech industry; the gender data gap; anti-racism reading list and bad doors.
Are You Building Straight, White, Male, Middle-class Products For Straight, White, Male, Middle-class People?
Phil Bennett wrote a compelling article that touches the main problems in tech: diversity and bias. A must-read, all backed by data.
🔗 Read the article (on Phil Bennet's website)
Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design
As technology gets better at each iteration, designs are regularly updated and replaced. Boris Müller and Frank Rausch compiled a list of interaction design classics providing insights that are relevant today.
🔗 Read the article (on Medium)
Over-complicated? Over-simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier
Morgane Peng introduces us to the UX Efficient Frontier concept for business interfaces. It helps us find the sweet spot between not too simple and not too complicated.
🔗 Read the article (on Medium)
Anti-racist Reading List For Designers
The design industry is 71% White. Lexi Namer listed books and articles aimed at designers with the intent of starting a dialogue about our privilege, assumption and biases as designers.
🔗 Read the article (on Medium)
It’s Not You. Bad Doors Are Everywhere
In his best-selling book The Design Of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman highlighted the issues with most doors. Their design gives people the wrong signal, which then needs an explanation to make it work. It’s not you.
Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women […] exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.
🔗 Read about the book (on Caroline Criado Perez's website)
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