tech ethics: a rant

Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a good read for people who want to be reminded of all the face-palmy flops…

Informing Culture by Growing Plants

Culture doesn’t just inform technology and design. Technology and design also increasingly inform culture.

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Technically Wrong

Technically Wrong — In The Style of Sketchnotes

After reading Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s book, Technically Wrong, I drew up some sketchnotes describing the major problem presented in each chapter.

Here they are:

The Ethics of a Machine Learning Object

Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s book Technically Wrong addresses some of the many issues that exist within the tech and design world, particularly around problems such as discrimination, abuse, and biases. It’s given me a deeper understanding of what sorts of design…

Technically Wrong

Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a book that mentions the elephant in the over-crowded design room: Ideas and products that are technically (ethically, morally) wrong. Reading through all of these kept my attention heightened throughout, as you see the examples of poor UX she…

It’s Not Your Algorithm, It’s You!

Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s book, Technically Wrong, is an exploration into some of the missteps and failures of tech companies and the sacred products they tout. These “failures” however are not measured by the company’s financial statements, but rather by the…

Technically Wrong Sketchnotes

Technically Wrong?

Reading Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher offered a space to understand and reflect on what I might be neglecting when working on my thesis.