UXPA-MN recognizes that members like you want to continue to learn and grow within the User Experience practice, and to help you achieve that goal, we've curated a number of items below. In this section, you will find resources that you can read, watch, listen to, or do that we hope expand the breadth and depth of your knowledge of user experience. This page will be refreshed regularly with new resources around a given theme relevant to multiple roles within the UX discipline. To view resources from a previous month, click here! Do you have ideas for a future theme or resources you'd like to see covered here? |
Current Theme: Ethics in Design
Updated: January 2023
As user experience professionals, our work has implications that can cascade throughout organizations, industries and the world. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence tools such as Chat GPT and DALL-E, understanding the ethical implications of the experiences that are created is more important than ever. While not all of these resources reference technology from 2023 these resources will give you something to think about none-the-less!ReadDesign for Safety - Eva Penzeymoog (Book)
Anti-racist language terms - Community Sourced Resource
Outsmart your own biases - Harvard Business Review
Building for Everyone - Annie Jean Baptiste (book)
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99 Percent Invisible - Episode 80 - An Architect's Code
In this episode of 99 percent invisible, Roman Mars shares the story about a group called Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) which has taken the stance that there are some buildings that just should not have been built. Buildings that, by design, violate standards of human rights.
How we conduct our user research is important. Understanding the base of how research was conducted allows us to better critique the methods and structures we might take for granted. In Radiolab’s “G” it explores the concept of intelligence. Over six episodes, the series unearths the fraught history (and present-day use) of IQ tests, digs into the bizarre tale of one man’s obsessive quest to find the secret to genius in Einstein’s brain, reveals the ways the dark history of eugenics have crept up into the present, looks to the future with a controversial geneticist who has created a prenatal test for intelligence, and stages a raucous game-show throwdown to crown the smartest animal in the world.
American Public Media Presents: Sold a Story
Content Strategy and Plain Language is foundational to user experience. In this series Emily Hanford investigates how reading is currently taught in America and how an empire has been designed around potentially faulty concepts.
The Crazy One - The need for ethical design
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