Luke

A memoir in the form of a comic, Art Spiegelmam tells the story of his Jewish father's experience in Poland during WWII in Maus: My Father Bleeds History. If a picture is worth a thousand words, 157 pages of raw, unfiltered pictures tells more of a story than a textbook ever could.

Maus is one of the first graphic novels that I've read, and also one of the few banned books I've read. I recommend Mause to everyone.

this is an easy read about meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics with empathy and ignorance as the source for our decisions. this is the second time i picked up the book, and the first time i read the book thoughtfully. at a surface-level, the messages are very simple: we should be kind because it's the right thing to do, and those who aren't lack an understanding of (or choose not to understand) others' experiences. there are thought-provoking questions throughout each chapter to help the reader better understand their ignorance, and to help appreciate the different ways other people express their love.

Great for basics of design/general research. The biggest take aways were the methods in the Quantitative and Qualitative chapters, with great examples for how to present data backing your decisions. I would have liked to see more content related to user interviews, and what kind of questions to ask vs. how to establish a relationship.