Books
Three books for people who care about design, content, and tech industry responsibility.
Technically Wrong
Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech
A Wired Top Tech Book
A Fast Company Best Business & Leadership Book
The tech products we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Signup forms that fail anyone who’s not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars. Sara Wachter-Boettcher presents a revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products—and harm us all.
Out now in paperback from W.W. Norton
Praise for Technically Wrong
“An essential guide for people who care about ensuring today's tech is humane and ethical.”
— Anil Dash, entrepreneur, activist, and writer
“Recommended for all readers interested in the intersection of technology and social justice.”
— Library Journal
“If a book on design in the technology industry ever deserved a standing ovation, this one is it.”
— John Maeda, author of The Laws of Simplicity
“A must-read in the post-Cambridge Analytica world.”
— Evening Standard
Other titles
Design for Real Life
Learn to identify stress cases and design with compassion, so you can create interfaces that support more of your users, more of the time (coauthored with Eric Meyer).
(A Book Apart, 2016)
Content Everywhere
Design content that's flexible and structured for reuse—so it can go more places, more easily. Perfect for bringing systems thinking into your content strategy toolkit.
(Rosenfeld Media, 2012)