Design Library
The Design Library is a collection of recommended reads, a mixture of essays, blog posts and websites. Many of these have shaped how I view design, and it’s various components. Not updated since 2022.
Accessibility
- Disability Dongle
- Against Access
- Designing devices for long-term care and reuse
- Alt Text as Poetry
- LIST - Eco-Crip Theory: A Compilation of Resources
- Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
- We’re All Just Temporarily Abled
- Executive Function Theft
- Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
- Pirate Care, a syllabus
User Experience
Industry Reviews
Personal and overall reviews of the industry.
The Web
Essays, articles and blog posts reviewing the state of the Internet
- The internet is already over (I highly recommend reading this one)
- The IRL Fetish
- “We Are Not Safe:” Platform Censorship And Trauma
- Honestly, it's probably the phones (CW: Suicide, self-harm)
- Influencer Creep
- enshittification
- “Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
- How Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
- How to Kill a Decentralised Network
Misc Topics
Various wikis and collections of information for learning about certain topics and things
Permaculture
Articles on decline, collapse and designing for resilience. Covers but Permaculture and Permacomputing.
Magazines and blogs
Online Magazines and blogs, some focused and others less so.
Links for academic liberation
Saw this first on Pixel’s site.
- Sci-Hub
- Library Genesis
- Z-Library
- Shadow Library
- Alexandra Elbakyan
- Aaron Swartz
- Center for Open Science
- Open Access
- Academic Journal Publishing Reform
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
- Should Knowledge be Free?
- In Solidarity with Libgen and Sci-Hub
- The Cost of Knowledge
- Anti-Racism in Academia
- #BlackInTheIvory
- Academic Imperialism
- Sexism in Academia
- Publish or Perish
- Academic Careerism
- Slow Science
- Up or Out
