The Real World of Technology A Lecture by Ursula M. Franklin www.amazon.com Technology is a systemFish and waterDefining activitiesHolistic and prescriptive technologiesThat which requires caring+17 More From hands to machinesThe design systems between usStress systems technologyworksocietycraft
Every Tool Shapes the Task A Speech by Ursula M. Franklin Imagine the world like a cakePower makes knowledge sufficientTo do some more pushups on the internetAdding up to hair-brainedWho the problems are+2 More You can almost tell which software they were designed inA minimum size to fish
Waking up from the dream of UX An Article by Peter Merholz www.petermerholz.com In no objective sense were things better for UX [in 2010]. Most companies didn’t know it existed. Most who did, drastically underinvested in it. Those who were willing to invest in it were savvy enough to listen to thought leaders, but that was a paltry percentage of the real work to be done. What’s happened by 2021 is that UX is not interesting in and of itself anymore. UX is a given. As Joe Lamantia said in a mailing list I’m on, “it’s furniture.” And the challenges and frustrations people are expressing are largely due to this maturation. We’re moving from “the dream of UX” to “the reality of UX.” Why I'm losing faith in UXUndoing the Toxic Dogmatism of Digital Design ux