Research Materials
An incomplete (but growing) list of insightful essays, videos and podcasts about thinking with and for humans.
Fundamental Materials
- Cooper, Alan: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, 2000, https://archive.org/details/inmatesarerunni000coop/page/n3/mode/2up (retrieved May 22, 2024)
- Farrugia, Stephen: The Aura of Care — False Legitimacy Gained Through UX, 2023, https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/ (retrieved June 06, 2024)
- Floyd, Ingbert & Jones, Cameron & Twidale, Michael: Resolving Incommensurable Debates: A Preliminary Identification of Persona Kinds, Attributes, and Characteristics, 2008, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/artifact/article/view/3912/3616 (retrieved June 28, 2024)
- Goh, Chu Hiang & Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan & Zaman, Tariq: Riding Waves of Change: A Review of Personas Research Landscape Based on the Three Waves of HCI, 2017, https://dl.ifip.org/IFIP-AICT-504/hal-01650073 (retrieved June 28, 2024)
- Salminien, Joni & Jung, Soon-Gyo: Instilling Knowledge Claims of Personas from 346 Research Articles, 2021, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351426375_Instilling_Knowledge_Claims_of_Personas_from_346_Research_Articles (retrieved June 28, 2024)
Other Research Materials
- Christensen, Clayton: Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Cooper, Alan: The Long Road to Inventing Design Personas, 2003, https://onezero.medium.com/in-1983-i-created-secret-weapons-for-interactive-design-d154eb8cfd58 (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Fowler, Martin et al: Agile Manifesto & Principles, 2001, https://agilemanifesto.org/ (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Gibson, James: Theory of Affordances, 1979, https://jtbd.info/know-the-two-very-different-interpretations-of-jobs-to-be-done-5a18b748bd89 (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Guild, Harry: Puncturing the Paradox — Group Cohesion and the Generational Myth, 2020, https://www.bbh-labs.com/puncturing-the-paradox-group-cohesion-and-the-generational-myth (retrieved June 24, 2024)
- Hallonsten, Olof: Empty Innovation – Causes and Consequences of Society’s Obsession with Entrepreneurship and Growth, 2024, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31479-7 (retrieved June 20, 2024)
- Kintzinger, Alexandre: Von Boomern bis Gen Z – Medien lieben es, Menschen in Generationen einzuteilen. Dabei ist das Humbug, 2024, https://uebermedien.de/91947/medien-lieben-es-menschen-in-generationen-einzuteilen-dabei-ist-das-humbug/ (retrieved June 28, 2024)
- Kremer, Julia: Nutzer*innen kennenlernen, 2023, https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ard-podcast-formatentwicklung/folge-7-julia-kremer-nutzer-innen-kennenlernen/ard/12923477/ (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Latour, Bruno: A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design, 2008, http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/69 (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Levitt, Theodore: Marketing Myopia, 1961, https://hbr.org/2004/07/marketing-myopia (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Lockton, Dan: Plural Imaginaries In an Age of Crises, 2023, https://videos.theconference.se/dan-lockton-plural-imaginaries-in (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Majewski, Taylor: No more Users, 2024, https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/ (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- McLuhan, Marshall & Fiore, Quentin: The Medium is the Massage, 1967, https://monoskop.org/log/?p=86, (retrieved July 4, 2024)
- Norman, Don: Ad-Hoc Personas & Empathetic Focus, 2008, https://jnd.org/ad-hoc-personas-empathetic-focus/ (retrieved July 05, 2024)
- Rehn, Alf: Image, Imperatives, and Ideology in the Innovation Industry, 2023, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16666-2_5 (retrieved May 31, 2024)
- Robinson, Cassie: Emerging Futures: Patterning the Third Horizon, 2023, https://videos.theconference.se/cassie-robinson-emerging-futures (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Schröder, Martin: Warum es keine Generationen gibt, 2023, https://www.martin-schroeder.de/2023/07/17/warum-es-keine-generationen-gibt/ (retrieved June 26, 2024)
- Simmel, Georg: Die Differenzierung und das Prinzip der Kraftersparnis, 1890, https://socio.ch/sim/differenzierung/dif_6.htm (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Spool, Jared: Making Personas Useful by Making Them Scenario-based, 2019, https://articles.centercentre.com/making-personas-truly-valuable-by-making-them-scenario-based/ (retrieved May 24, 2024)
- Wert, Christoph H.: Denken ohne Geländer – Hannah Arendt, 2008, https://www.kas.de/de/web/die-politische-meinung/artikel/detail/-/content/denken-ohne-gelaender-hannah-arendt (retrieved July 04, 2024)
- Willshire, John V.: Strategy is Dead - Long live Meta-Strategy, 2016, https://videos.theconference.se/john-willshire-strategy-is-dead-long-live (retrieved May 23, 2024)
- Young, Indi: Challenging the Make-Believe in Personas, 2019, https://medium.com/inclusive-software/challenging-the-make-believe-in-personas-92e15afbe031 (retrieved June 09, 2024)