Resources
I like to curate lists of resources for myself and for my community. Here you will find materials that have contributed to my education and growth, both personally and professionally. I hope they are useful to you too.
Categories
Social Justice and Technology
Suveillance Capitalism
- Ungoverned Space: How Surveillance Capitalism and AI Undermine Democracy by Taylor Owen
- Surveillance & Society: Vol 15 No 5 (2017): Open Issue
- Surveillance & Society: Vol 15 No 1 (2017): Race, Communities and Informers
Design Justice
Newsletters
Journals
- Privacy at the Margins - a special section from the International Journal of Communication
- Surveillance & Society - Open Access Journal
Online Books
- Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Books
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
- Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
- The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin
- Twitter and Tear Gas - The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
Healthier Communities
Articles
- Recognizing Sick Systems by Issendai
- Qualities That Keep You in a Sick System by Issendai
- When Whisper Networks Let Us Down: How communities struggle — and sometimes fail — to stop sexual assault by Sarah Jeong [ TRIGGER WARNING]
- The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment by Leigh Honeywell
- No More Rock Stars: How to Stop Abuse in Tech Communities by Leigh Honeywell
- A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered By Disabled, Femme of Color, Working Class/Poor Genius) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Books
- Beautiful Trouble by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part I: Power and Struggle by Gene Sharp
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part II: The Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part III: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- We Believe You: Femmes Surviving Toxic Masculinity edited by Andi Grace
User Experience
Books on User Experience and Human Computer Interaction
- Designing User Experience: A guide to HCI and interaction design - David Benyon
- The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution - Don Norman (1999)
- The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman (1998)
- Things That Make Us Smart - Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine - Don Norman (1993)
- The Art of Human–Computer Interface Design - Brenda Laurel (1990)
- Technology as Experience - John McCarthy and Peter Wright (2007)
- Designing interactions - Bill Moggridge (2006)
- The Human–Computer Interaction Handbook - Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition - Edited by Julie A. Jacko (2012)/li>
- The Elements of User Experience Second Edition: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond - Jessy James Garrett (2010)
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interactive Design - Alan Cooper, Robert Reiman and David Cronin (2007)
- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web (and Mobile) Usability - Steve Krug (2014)
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience - Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden (2013)
Web resources and communities
- Interaction Design Foundation The most comprehensive open source library of UX resources, including literature, an encyclopedia, classes, bootcamps, meetups, etc.
- Nielsen Norman Group- UX research literature
- Figma's learning resources - a collection of tutorials and articles including a great list of use case examples.
- Figma's youtube channel - a rich collection of video tutorials, examples and lessons
- The UX Collective on Medium
- Adobe XD Ideas - A curated collection of resources and articles
Accessibility
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 - the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) by the W3C
- Accessibility: How to Design for All - a course by The Interaction Design Foundation
- Designing for Global Accessibility, Part I: Awareness is everything by the Design Team at Google
- Designing for Global Accessibility, Part II: Context matters by the Design Team at Google
- Designing for Global Accessibility, Part III: Be inclusive by default by the Design Team at Google
- Google Material's Accessibility Guide
- The Designer’s Guide to Accessibility Research
Professional Associations
- The User Experience Professionals Association
- The Interaction Design Association
- SIGCHI - A community for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction. Conferences, academic papers, meetups, etc.