Reading list & useful things I found for 19-25 August

Accessibility

We need to talk about dyslexia at work; a nice blogpost about dyslexia in the work place and how to improve support for people who live and work with dyslexia.

Brexit

Achievement unlocked: first "thanks for the invite but I can't speak at your conference because it's after Brexit and I can't risk not being let back into the UK."

😞😞😞😞

— Bodil Stokke, Esq. (@bodil) August 19, 2019

Apple's R&D budget is now the same as Spain's

as in, all private and public R&D in the entire country of Spain, the 13th largest economy in the world, home to 47 million peoplehttps://t.co/SD4Cz9R5Cd pic.twitter.com/XDsGtyUqxd

— Christopher Mims 🎆 (@mims) August 19, 2019

User Research

A beginners guide to getting into user research; A ma-hoosive list of resources (in the form of a Notion.so note) about how to start doing user research.

Accessibility

Lámh signing system; the manual sign system used by children and adults with intellectual disability and communication needs in Ireland. With Lámh, speech is always used with signs and only key words in a sentence are signed. (Lámh is the Irish word for hand)

Events, and conferences

IXDA International Interaction Design Day, 24th September. There’s a list of all the worldwide events. Details about the London event (09:00-18:00) in Foolproof’s offices, in London are available.