These are things that have impacted me and that I come back to often. They have changed my beliefs, articulated answers to questions, and I really like them.
Influences
Books
Man's Search for Meaning
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses
Understanding Computers and Cognition
Projects
Social Designers Toolkit
Comedy Hack Day
The Professional Sharing Project
Ghosts with Shit Jobs
CMU Time & Motion Studies
Papers & Essays
A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
The Problem of Design Problems
On Receiving Feedback
Designing for Service as One Way of Designing Services
Audrey Watters
A taste for practices: Unrepressing style in design thinking
Experience Design in the Machine Learning Era
The Archetypes of UX Design
Make and Articulate: Developing Holistic Designerly Ways of Knowing Through Making
Media