Digital Ethics

"When neighbors start talking, good things happen." 🏡 pic.twitter.com/YoPUZeBsxu— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 12, 2019

There’s a long-standing tradition among scientists, engineers, and industrialists. Every new year, they make predictions about a future.

To everyone who shapes technology today.

Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective—but humans often want multiple incompatible things.

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Technologists: people will use the systems you build to discover themselves, come out, find love, fuck, escape abusive situations, make friends, survive and, grieve. Many times in ways you will not understand. Your job is to reduce harm, not to judge, ignore or suppress.— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) January 17, 2019

Behold, the curb cut: a wedge cut in an elevated curb to allow smooth passage between the sidewalk and the street.

When technology is complicated, opaque, changing, and absolutely vital to the health of a patient, how do we make sure it works as promised?

What if you had a year you don't want to review on Facebook?

With Grindr and other queer platforms, the burden of keeping safe shouldn’t fall solely on users.

Among the most annoying platitudes we have is the saying “Always trust your gut”, a reference to your deepest instincts. This is mostly bad advice and I will explain why. Our instincts …

Designers are vulnerable to the same cognitive biases as users. The context in which you present a problem can bias your design choices.

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.

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

A talk with Jonathan Shariat, a Silicon-Valley based director of product & design. Most conversations about the value of user experience (UX) are in relation to what we can get from it: Supercharge conversions! Boost repeat business! Increase form completion rates! These things aren’t actually

"Success is measured by number of downloads and star ratings on the app store."

Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, is determined to find the answer.

Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertiser...

Green patterns are UX choices that create great user experiences for people while also providing sustainable options for the planet.

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

I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we…

In the last few months I’ve had a lot of designers ask me “Where can I do good work?”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean…

Five questions for designers

My talk at the 2016 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit, Atlanta. With notes.