Steve Fadden: Research Lead, Google & Lecturer for UC Berkeley - blended experience in technology & academia; learning, positionality, ethics

In today’s episode we talk to Steve about his blended experience in both the technology sector and the educational field ; the individual and collective manners in which people (both consumers and product teams) learn and the challenges of addressing that in an inclusive way; how learning happens in a multidisciplinary team; implicit vs explicit knowledge transmission; how to read and incorporate implicit messages into projects; 3 principles of incorporating ethics into product development; how to address the positionality of a researcher and the role of collaboration and using questions to reframe the conversation; 3 pieces of advice for social scientists considering the business sector; advice for business considering to hire social scientists

Mentioned in Podcast:

⁃ Belmont Report

⁃ How to lie with statistics, Daryl Hoff

⁃ The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge

⁃ UX India conference

Steve’s work:

Article based on some of Steve's dissertation work:

Fadden, S., Ververs, P. M., & Wickens, C. D. (2001). Pathway HUDs: Are They Viable? Human Factors, 43(2), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1518/001872001775900841

Marchand, Ashley. (March 7, 2010). 2-Year Colleges Help Learning-Disabled Students Break Into Math and Science, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/Community-Colleges-Help/64531

Maimin, Sybil. (December, 2006). Research in Learning Disorders at Landmark College, Education Update Online.
Retrieved from http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2006/Dec/html/col-researchin.html

Industry research on role of color in analytics:

Fadden, Steve & Geyer, Mark. (May 1, 2018). Two Fascinating Things Salesforce Discovered when it Studied Color. FastCompany.com. Retrieved from: https://www.fastcompany.com/90169654/two-fascinating-things-salesforce-discovered-when-it-studied-color

Fadden, Steve. (May 19, 2018). Color Affects Performance — What Salesforce's Latest Design Studies Reveal. Retrieved from: https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2018/05/new-research-color-performance.html

Other interviews with Steve:

CanvasFlip blog post (June 24, 2017). Steve Fadden on his journey of user experience.
A Q&A session to learn from his experiences as a UX practitioner, lecturer and a mentor. Retrieved from: https://blog.prototypr.io/steve-fadden-on-his-journey-of-user-experience-59f45f87d5fc

Abhay Vohra's NetSolutions blog post (October 15, 2018). Designing for the Whole Human: User Research and the Impact of Emerging Technology
Retrieved from: https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/designing-for-the-whole-human-user-research-and-the-impact-of-emerging-technology/

Social media and other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefadden

https://twitter.com/sfadden

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/steve-fadden

https://www.slideshare.net/SteveFadden1