Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

1/Someone shared this with me today and I'm seeing it for the first time but I'd like @userinterviews to consider how they approach pieces like this in the future (some of which can still be corrected on this piece). Some thoughts: https://t.co/4XZdErc625

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023

2/When you're writing a blog post that is basically the summarization of everyone else's work:

(1) Give credit more upfront (especially when the majority of your quotes come from 2 Black women): the post has 1 person as the author when in reality it's the work of everyone else.

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023

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(2) I can literallyyyyy tell what parts of my talks or writings have just been slightly re-worded or paraphrased, as if the author originally wrote it. I don't know if this is true for the other folks in this piece but for me this ... is not ... okay. Cite the work.

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023

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(3) Support the work of those you are surfacing by also hyperlinking their names to either their LinkedIn or their business. For example, you could hyperlink @rdietkus's website or @ChristelleNg's name to her LinkedIn (vs the same blog). Be about the community.

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023

5/ In general the UX community has to get better at giving credit where credit is due. And if the piece HEAVILYYY uses quotes/the paraphrased work of others, be more upfront about their contribution to the piece (maybe even give them a heads up?) vs just one author.

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023

6/And please, I beg, learn how to cite the work of others (even if paraphrased). Otherwise you end up writing a book thinking that you're the originator of an idea when others have ACTUALLY been doing the work in a way that more accurately represents the idea **cough** Don Norman

— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) April 15, 2023