universal ux: building multicultural user experience (2016)

Universal UX Design: Building Multicultural User Experience provides an ideal guide as multicultural UX continues to emerge as a transdisciplinary field that, in addition to the traditional UI and corporate strategy concerns, includes socio/cultural and neurocognitive concerns that constitute one of the first steps in a truly global product strategy.

The book reviews the essentials of cognitive UI perception and how they are affected by socio-cultural conditioning, as well as how different cultural bias and expectations can work in UX design.

Cosmetic, Aesthetic, Prophetic: Beyond the Boundaries of Beauty (2016)

Edited by Alberto Ferreira and Lucy Moyse

Edited over the course of a year on multiple train commutes, this volume consists of selected papers for an Oxford Inter-Disciplinary.net conference that brought together multiple young researchers from all over the world on the subject of beauty.

In it, the concept of beauty and its many manifestations is demystified, from maths to political disruption. Heady academic stuff with a touch of indie garage band.