List: Recommended readings | Curated by Kevin Richard

Jan 24, 2025
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Recommended readings
Cory Doctorow
Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capitalSure, they want “profit at all costs” but ask yourself, ‘why is enshittification profitable?’
Jan 20
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Jan 20
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Fabien Girardin
Hommage à Nicolas Nova
Jan 8
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Jan 8
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Permissioning the City Product Journey
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Dark Matter Labs
#1 Are we coding too soon? — Day 3Product scoping — balancing strategy and feasibility
Oct 15, 2024
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Oct 15, 2024
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Permissioning the City Product Journey
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Dark Matter Labs
#1 User journey and scenario building — Day 2Challenging our theory by creating realistic use case scenarios
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
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Permissioning the City Product Journey
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Dark Matter Labs
#1 Transitioning from project to product — Day 1Documenting the product scoping workshop
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
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UX Collective
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Jonas Engkvist
Why aren’t there more UX sociologists out there?How sociology could broaden the perspective on digital design that today’s psychology centric approach doesn’t fully cover.
Aug 21, 2024
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Aug 21, 2024
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UX Collective
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Kevin Richard
Design has a granularity issueWhy we need to move towards a new design philosophy & practice.
Jul 31, 2024
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Jul 31, 2024
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Dark Matter Laboratories
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Dark Matter Labs
Diving Deep into the Deep Code (Pt2): Unraveling the Knotted Problem Space of DataChatGPT is everywhere. The AI chatbot exploded into the mainstream almost overnight, reaching 100 million monthly users just two months…
Jul 26, 2024
Jul 26, 2024
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Neighbourhood Public Square
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CIVIC SQUARE
3ºC Neighbourhood3ºC Neighbourhood is co-authored by CIVIC SQUARE and Dark Matter Labs as a new piece of research that seeks to understand the current risks…
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
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TALE500
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Oliver Ding
TALE: Product, Langue, and SpeechA Linguistic Perspective on Product Engagement
Mar 1, 2023
Mar 1, 2023
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UX Collective
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Ammar Halabi
Measuring the experience of AIFinding emergent relevance during interaction
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024
Daiana Zavate
An empty tomb for Design Thinking & Why do people keep saying Design Thinking is dead?For the past few years, Design Thinking has been “dying” in the midst of change.
Mar 4, 2024
Mar 4, 2024
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Dark Matter Laboratories
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Dark Matter Labs
Property & Beyond: introducing a new part of the Dark Matter Labs ecosystemIntroducing the new Property & Beyond Lab and our portfolio of work
Feb 28, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
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MapAI
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swardley
AI and the New TheocraciesA note for those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for safety
Feb 26, 2024
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Feb 26, 2024
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Studio D
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Jan Chipchase
How AI changes (research) photographyResearch photography feels currently feels like a niche topic, but advances in AI will change its role in communicating resaerch.
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
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UX Collective
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Pavel Samsonov
No, AI user research is not “better than nothing”—it’s much worseSynthetic insights are not research. They are the fastest path to destroy the margins on your product.
Feb 7, 2024
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Feb 7, 2024
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Dark Matter Laboratories
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Dark Matter Labs
Towards multivalent currencies, bioregional monetary stewardship and a distributed global reserve…In this second blog of a 4-part series we are sharing some design principles that could underpin a desirable future scenario. The blog…
Jan 21, 2024
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Jan 21, 2024
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Dark Matter Laboratories
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Dark Matter Labs
Beyond Climate Action PlanningA Just Transition Plan for London Borough of Newham
Dec 8, 2023
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Dec 8, 2023
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Dark Matter Laboratories
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Dark Matter Labs
Can we start a Community-Powered Retrofit Revolution?We need to rethink our approach to retrofit.
Dec 7, 2023
Dec 7, 2023
Sonja Blignaut
Enabling coherent explore spacesI have written before about the need to embrace messy coherence or in more technical terms, coherent heterogeneity, a term I first…
Feb 20, 2021
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Feb 20, 2021
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