Hi friends! Thanks for attending my talk — or at least being interested in it enough to come get more resources.
👨🏻🏫 Slides from my talk
Here’s a PDF of my talk! Once there is a video up and running, I’ll post that here too:/
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📚 A few other books I mentioned in my talk
These are absolutely worth checking out (although I don’t have a discount code for them):
- Uncovering Truffles: The Scarcity and Value of Women in STEM by Melanie Polkosky, Ph.D.
- Just Enough Research (the Shitty Pulp Edition) by Erika Hall
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
📠 Here’s where you can find me on the web:
- ⁂ asterisms, my personal blog
- Bluesky, the social network where I’m the most active
- Mastodon, another fun one where I host my own server
- Pixelfed, Mastodon, but crossed with Instagram
- LinkedIn, where I am probably yapping about content design
- Are.na, with links to things I like
- Signal, if you want to chat with me one-on-one (I’m @andyw.32)
- My Gumroad shop, where I sell zines and stickers
- This website’s homepage, to read a bit more about me and see my handsome face
✏️ Pencils and analog tools:
- The Erasable Podcast, my long-running biweekly-ish podcast about pencils and stationery
- Woodclinched, my mostly defunct blog about the same
- Plumbago Magazine, a zine I edit with contributor-submitted content about analog tools of creation
⚠️ UX writing and content design:
- Writing is Designing, a book I co-wrote about UX writing fundamentals
- 404 Magazine, a zine with UX writing and poetry and a sprinkle of bad AI poetry