Jofish Kaye is a computer scientist who aligns design, data, and qualitative exploration for human-centered product innovation.
His superb track record as a scholar includes more than 100 publications and affiliations with MIT, Cornell, and Microsoft Research. Surprisingly, his career has been in corporations: following stints at Nokia, Yahoo, and Mozilla, he is now a director of AI and UX at Anthem.
I have been a fan of his work for many years – he is a brilliant research writer whose takes are as entertaining as they are rigorous and instructive. In the longest episode of Design Disciplin to date, we had a massively wide-ranging conversation on pretty much all of our mutual interests: research, philosophy, social sciences, leadership, and more.
From the conversation:
Books
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Papers
“Firefox Voice: An Open and Extensible Voice Assistant Built Upon the Web” by Julia Cambre et al.
“The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers” by Daniel F. Chambliss
“Undisciplined disciples: everything you always wanted to know about ethnomethodology but were afraid to ask Yoda” by Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Blythe, and Jofish Kaye
Courses and conversations
People and concepts
Research communities
Tools
