Basecamp designer Jonas Downey ruminates on the heavy weight of software design in the 21st century.

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems is launching the second version of Ethically Aligned Design, Version 2.

Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don't play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse.

Designers love to minimizing the steps it takes to complete a process. But Nextdoor didn't remove steps from its incident reporting process. It added them.

UXers must be aware of their own cognitive biases in order to make reasonable, evidence based judgments.

Ninety-nine percent of us live on the wrong side of a one-way mirror

Researchers built a custom platform to root out trackers in mobile apps. They discovered 44 different varieties in 300 apps downloaded by billions of people.

Want to make change within your organization? Use your design skills internally to create a better workplace.

Some buttons, such as the door-close button on an elevator, are mere artifices — placebos that promote an illusion of control but in reality do not work.

Outputs are more easily measured, but less important.

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

We derive ethical truth with the same method we use to derive truth about anything; we ask good questions. If we look at the scientific method, it requires a hypothesis, a question or statement th…

Nonprofits have to prove that they make a difference with their programs. But what do all these terms mean? And how do we use them?

Office culture is only part of the problem.

Trump vann valet tack vare en effektiv digital kampanj, ”Project Alamo”. Med falska nyheter, massiv datainhämtning och medveten påverkan av motståndarna.

A city councilman is pushing to make public the code behind city decisions on everything from school assignments to trash collection.

Intellectual property claims keep relevant evidence out of court.

But real books, records and brick and mortar stores will take us back with open arms.

In the first of a series of blogs on design and sustainability, Chris Sherwin argues that design will be the key feature in the next wave of sustainability

This week, Ian Sample explores the psychology behind ‘nudging’, its usage by governments, and some of the ethical quandaries involved

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jonathan Shariat, senior interaction designer at Intuit and co-author of the forthcoming book "Tragic Design." We talk about his new book and survey some use cases that point a spotlight on the importance of ethical standards in design.

As computer programmers write code that runs everything from airplanes to pharmacy orders, there's a serious need for ethical training and guidelines.

Five questions for designers

The area of ethics in user experience design ranges from providing complete freedom for the users, up to making all the choices for them.

Too many designers, argues Thomas Wendt, believe that doing empathy = doing good design. But empathy isn't a substitute for ethics.

You owe it to your users to design responsibly.

In this article we develop a taxonomy of behavioral policy measures proposed by Thaler and Sunstein (2008). Based on this taxonomy, we discuss the ethical legitimacy of these measures. First, we explain two common reservations against nudges (choice architecture) rooted in utilitarian and Kantian ethics. In addition to wellbeing, we identify freedom of action and freedom of will (autonomy) as relevant ethical criteria. Then, using practical examples, we develop a taxonomy that classifies nudges according to the psychological mechanisms they use and separately discuss the legitimacy of sever...

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