Rituals for Work

Acknowledgments

This book would not be possible without the help of our family, friends, and colleagues.

We would like to thank our families who live in the U.S. and in Turkey, with special thanks to Kerem and Teoman.

Thank you to the Stanford d.school community, who inspired us to share our work with the wider community. We thank our students and partnering organizations at SAP, Microsoft, and Stanford Center for Design Research. We would also like to thank our collaborators who have taught with us before, including David Sirkin, Isabel Behncke, Defne Civelekoglu, and Professor Anne Mundell.

We thank Professor Richard Buchanan, Professor John Zimmerman, and Professor Lorrie Cranor for supporting the designing for transitions research at Carnegie Mellon, which inspired the work on ritual design.

Thanks to Reina Takahashi in supporting the design of our book. And thanks to Justin Lokitz who opened us up to the art of the possible.

Thank you to all our interviewees: Annette Ferrara, Anima LaVoy, Ayse Birsel, Cipriano Lopez, Dom Price, Isabel Behncke, Laura Miner, Lilian Tong, Marshall Goldsmith, and Nick Hobson for their openness, curiosity, and great work.

And thank you to the community who showed up at the first Ritual Design Summit at Stanford in May 2018, for their feedback and ideas.

Finally, thank you to Hamide, Metin, and Bekir for all their support while writing and drawing the book.