Xiaomi’s new Mi Band 2 has a slight design flaw. It doesn’t care about black people.

Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.

The many ways design decisions treat people unequally.

Boffins find interrupting users with pop-ups in the middle of things just doesn't work

How not to entrepreneur.

Journey maps combine two powerful instruments—storytelling and visualization—in order to help teams understand and address customer needs.

It's a real phenomenon, and Ivy League librarians are fighting it.

No, it's not only you—some user interfaces today intentionally want to confuse and enroll.

Apologize for ugly use of "spirit animal."

UX in Libraries Resource List    A structured introduction to UX and ethnography

A page on Liz Denys's personal site

In which queer bot builders talk bot training, biased data sets and audience awareness in response to Microsoft's Tay debacle.

User experience is the most important component when designing a website, an app or a product.

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning   Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble discusses her research into Google, a
technology commonly thought of as a public resource free from commercial
interest, and the ways in which it mediates public access to
information in biased ways and permits problematic racial and gender
misrepresentations.  Sponsored by the Douglas College Faculty Professional Development Committee.
 
Speaker bio
Safiya Umoja Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
and Information Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on socio-cultural
informatics, and feminist, historical and political-economic
perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest.
Her research is at the intersection of transnational culture and
technology in the design and use of applications on the internet. She is
currently writing a book about Google and Information bias (forthcoming
from NYU Press).