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About the Author

Sara Wachter-Boettcher runs Rare Union, a consultancy based in Philadelphia, and is the author of two previous books: Design for Real Life, with Eric Meyer, and Content Everywhere. She helps organizations with digital product and content strategy, and speaks at conferences worldwide.

Obras por Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

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An excellent introduction to compassionate design, full of tactics to add to your toolkit, but the lack of any real discussion around disabled people is uncomfortable. I felt like most examples focused around people having bad days due to injury, death, etc. -- the book should have had more examples from marginalized communities.

Also, the frequently used example of the period tracking app as being for women (when trans people are mentioned here and there in the book) feels like the authors could have benefitted from taking their own advice and challenging their own assumptions.… (mais)
 
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TheKroog | 1 outra crítica | Oct 18, 2023 |
3.5 stars. I am 100% behind the issues laid out in the book...but my issues are with the construction and function of the book itself.

Who is the target audience? Tech/design industry folks or outsiders? The jargon and references were inconsistent enough times that it never sat well with me.

This felt at times like a lot of anecdotes strung loosely together, and I had to glance at the chapter title or flip back a few pages to remember what the theme was.

What is the major takeaway? The tech industry has flaws? Here is a list of socioculturally oriented flaws? Here are ways to address those flaws? And again, it depends on whether this book is intended for tech professionals, laypeople, etc.

This was an ambitious effort and an eye-opening read even for those of us familiar with these issues, but the execution needed polish to keep it cohesive.
… (mais)
 
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andorus | 2 outras críticas | Oct 4, 2019 |
Good quick overview of some of the pernicious problems with tech today, mostly because it's driven by young white guys who think they're part of a meritocracy.
 
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adzebill | 2 outras críticas | Mar 13, 2019 |
The title evokes Papanek's classic "Design for the Real World," but the area of overlap is limited. Papanek looks at how design should extend its practice to the massive portion of our population that's underserved, and the consequences of design choices & outcomes on a global and societal scale. Here, Meyer & Wachter-Boettcher look at how to treat those we currently service with compassion, and the consequences of design choices & outcomes on an individual and human scale.

Design for Real Life has stories, cases studies, tactics, and practical techniques for humanizing design and understanding how, when we design at scale, to better serve the entirety of our audience. Many designers and researchers will be familiar with some of the practices here—personas, journey mapping, interviewing, and so on. The Real Life frame (think "stress case" over "edge case") offers insight into how we can humanize our existing design practices and find new ways to bring compassion and human understanding into the process.… (mais)
 
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stonecrops | 1 outra crítica | Nov 26, 2018 |

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3
Membros
297
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#78,942
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
6
ISBN
12

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