Digital Ethics

A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want.

The thing we do well in Silicon Valley is ignore the very Real problems of the world so we can destroy poor people’s livelihoods instead. https://t.co/Jt0WGVPIrU— Alan Cooper (@MrAlanCooper) September 13, 2017

For author Cory Doctorow, the impact to an organization’s insurability might hold the answer for effective data privacy management.

Having more sales and conversions does NOT mean you have more happy customers. e-commerce teams should have this repeated to them at least once a month just to be sure it sunk in. Figure out how you can best measure the customer's actual experience.— Geoff Wilson (@geoffwilsonUX) June 6, 2018

I känslan av frihet kan vi utvecklas som bäst. Då vi är fria från att varken lyckas eller misslyckas utan få befinna oss i ett tillstånd att bara vara och bara göra. Där upplevelsen får vara i fokus och inte bara kraven och prestationen. För att uppleva frihet krävs tillit. Att lita på att stunden bär mig oavsett. Tillit ger mig modet att släppa taget. För att en trapetsartist ska kunna flyga från en hand till en annan krävs just tillit. Varje barn föds med en inre tillit om du frågar mig. En tillit till livet. Barnet har tillit till sin andning, hjärtslag, mammas bröst och att hen är i god...

Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by Jon Yablonski.

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI).

Artificial intelligence is powering the fourth industrial revolution and has been called the "new electricity." The global economic impact of AI applications...

Imagine a technology that is potently, uniquely dangerous — something so inherently toxic that it deserves to be completely rejected, banned, and stigmatized. Something so pernicious that regulation…

Redefining and recontextualizing mythology and design

"If you think the world is all data you’ll miss how much is too complicated to summarize in a statistic." https://t.co/2T6892IUfn— Don Richard (@DonaldRichard) July 7, 2018

I keep thinking things like this - & also how, when Tylenol was tampered with & 7 people were poisoned, they recalled it all, shut the line down until they’d figured out how to do better https://t.co/FPLMt3uQQg— Cyd Harrell (@cydharrell) July 25, 2018

The latest Tweets from Karina Wagenpfeil (@ChronicKarina). Scientist turned ME/CFS, MCAS, POTS, and EDS patient. Interested in patient advocacy. Strong supporter of biomedical research. Blog when my health allows. Wisconsin, USA

We sincerely apologize for this situation: It perpetuates medical misogyny, a huge problem women face when seeking treatment from medical professionals. The question has been removed, and we will be conducting a content review. See our full statement here. pic.twitter.com/hz8FXwRjoB— Osmosis (@OsmosisMed) July 26, 2018

A bank called police when a black woman tried to cash a $140 check. Real question for UX peeps: How did your last service design project consider racism?— Kim Goodwin (@kimgoodwin) July 27, 2018

Among the Luo people in rural Kenya, intelligence has 4 broad concepts: rieko, which largely corresponds to W. idea of academic intelligence; luoro, which includes social qualities like respect, responsibility and consideration; paro, practical thinking; and winjo, comprehension.— Per Axbom (@axbom) July 29, 2018

Over the last few decades, survey research has witnessed a number of developments that have affected the quality of data that emerge using this methodology. Usi...

Number of years since we make them:Elevators ~200yPlanes ~150yComputers (not mechanical) ~100ySoftwares for voting ~25yDecentralized ledgers ~10y— Noël Bardelot 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@bardelotnzl) August 8, 2018

For those of you who don't now, Sunday August 13th is International Left-Handers Day, so in homage to lefties everywhere, Bored Panda has compiled this list of annoying problems that all left-handers face on a daily basis.

Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

baby is learning! lol... he tries to get off the bed but it is too high so he throws down pillows for a safe landing so smart “For licensing and usage, conta...

Hey tech developers: It’d be really nice if you put a “pregnancy mode” in your weight/training/workout etc. apps. I’m getting really tired of my smart scale and exercise apps yelling at me for weight gain/decreased activity.— Swapna Krishna is on maternity leave (@skrishna) August 30, 2018

"When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower" - @purposologist #sketchnote via @kwiens62 #edchat #growthmindset #spedchat pic.twitter.com/ihTXKMxdiS— MindShift (@MindShiftKQED) September 1, 2018

Agree. Hence my addition, "we'd have to build an AI to answer that question" :)AI itself may not answer the question but the resulting impact will.— Per Axbom (@axbom) September 7, 2018

Oh it's just the terms of service of all the apps printed on the ground pic.twitter.com/b2RwY1DQoS— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) September 9, 2018