350: Designing Misused Features

This week, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design. Spoiler: hard problems are hard. This, plus The Sidebar, some follow up, and cool things as always.

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In this week's Sidebar, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design.

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• An Antiracist Reading List
• What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Said
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• A thread on design history
• Cross-cultural Design
• Mismatch - How Inclusion Shapes Design
• Algorithms of Oppression
• How to be Antiracist
• So You Want to Talk About Race
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
• The Culture Map
• Black Designers: Missing in Action

• Trump was fact checked
  • FYI: mail-in ballots are not particularly prone to fraud.
• Twitter Finally Fact-Checked Trump. It’s a Bit of a Mess
• This reminded us of the Streisand Effect
• The Illusory Truth Effect is "the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure."
  • Richard Gere and the Gerbil
  • "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - get the facts on this quote. Spoiler: "At this time, there is no substantive support for assigning the saying to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill.'
• Hindsight Bias "refers to the common tendency for people to perceive events that have already occurred as having been more predictable than they actually were before the events took place."
  • Is Facebook Spying on You?

• Brian shared Revision Path, a weekly podcast interviewing black creators. If you need more podcasts for your ears, check it out!
• Marshall shared Jacob Collier, a musical genius with some truly unbelievable talents. Dig in, friends.
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