Book Review – Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Perez

Overview: I bought this book on Audible after listening to the author talk to Roman Mars on his podcast – 99% Invisible) and listened to the audio book, which the author has read herself. The book is primarily about three things: Design Data and Women The entire book is about how designers have ignored the role that gender plays in designing their products or services and how by not collecting data about how the design interacts with half the world’s population, we are blind-sighted of the huge implications of ignoring this demographic from our design research. Ease of reading: The […]

How Different Human Societies Name Colours And the Not So Surprising Fact!

I recently saw this interesting video that shared some interesting facts on how names of colours evolve in different parts of the world independent of each other and how it still follows a similar pattern.  The thing that is surprising and what we can learn from it is that in some sense, all of the different cultures around the world evolved in a similar fashion.   Irrespective of which part of the world we grew up in, irrespective of what languages we speak, irrespective of what religion we follow or however different our culture might seem from the surface, deep down […]

Being the Best Version of Ourselves…

I was introduced to the body of work created by Joey through Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog www.swiss-miss.com. She is the founder of CreativeMornings, a community of creative pro’s coming together to share and learn from one another. This is now a worldwide phenomenon where some of the most creative people share their perspectives on a specific theme.  Joey’s work is simple, creative and motivating. This particular post caught my eye and spoke to me as we are always trying to compete and out-do each other while the true race is with ourselves.  [bctt tweet=”Are we being the best version of ourselves? If […]

Fake Until Proven True

The Real Problem with Fake News In one of the largest study of stories, real and false, that spread, it was found that false news spreads faster and farther than real news. Here is Sinan Aral, who was part of the original research team, talking about the results of this study and detailing why false news spreads more than real news. It is found that as humans, we are more susceptible to spreading false news more than bots or algorithms. It is the novelty of the fake news that hooks us and makes is want to share. It is clear […]