Design has a sinister side

This week from People Nerds: We talk about how to prevent harmful design, Gen Z in the workforce, and infusing creativity into UX.

The dark side of design and how to prevent it When you're encouraged to move fast and break things, users can fall victim to quick designs. While a hammer is designed for building purposes, it can also be used to destroy. Lexi Namer walks through this intersection of ethics and design and why centering the conversations around harm can create safer environments.   THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE Results from last week's community poll (n = 212) "My best strategy for engaging stakeholders in research is ________"   30.7% | Making really engaging deliverables 29.2% | Having them observe (or run) interviews 15.6% | Including them in the analysis process 14.2% | Sharing small findings and artifacts during the research process 10.3% | Hosting talks or workshops about my findings So....what's hip these days? As Gen Z continues to make their way into the workforce, organizations are asking how they might adapt to create a thriving environment for them. Professor Stacey Neier walks us through what she's learning about this group from her classrooms, what hiring managers should know, and how design thinking ties in.   RAD? GROOVY? SICK BRO? And for dessert, we have creativity-infused research Creativity is great for writing and art, but research…? Nikki Anderson-Stanier breaks down why researchers should care about getting creative, how to weave it into your process, and how leaning into creativity opens the space for trying new methods.   DEEEELISH Every researcher knows that any good research just generates more questions to be answered, so having flexibility with methods can give space to those new leads. Rosalind (Koff) Zuluaga Director of Customer Experience & Research at dscout Read more and be sure to join Rosalind at People Nerds 2022! More we're discussing: Motivate your stakeholders with shareouts they can't ignore. Nikki walks through why storytelling in user research is so critical and how to do it. Nikki Knox of Hinge Health walks through a recent project she ran with dscout and how data sensitivity and participant consent are evolving. What we're hearing: EPIC's annual conference kicks off this week. In anticipation of next week's programming, here's a call to action for ethnography's role in the AI age. How do we do "design thinking," exactly? ID Foundation's Laia Tremosa inventories eight elements to this foundational concept of practice. dscout is a company composed of People Nerds working to make context-rich human insight an everyday habit across organizations. The dscout platform—Diary, Live, Recruit, and Express—enables remote qualitative research that brings researchers into the moments experienced and shared by real people. Curious about the platform or working with dscout? Talk to an account executive.  dscout, 222 North LaSalle St. Suite 650, Chicago, Illinois 60601, (312) 880-9715 Unsubscribe Manage preferences