Digital Ethics

From the tools we'll use, to our process, to the behaviors that will change the way we design — here's a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

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Dieter Rams’s design principles get a 21st-century update.

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.

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

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

A study into the ethics of Graphic Design

A practical solution for the ethical designer.

Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics

Chatbot fever has infected Silicon Valley. The leaders of virtually every tech giant — including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple — proclaim chatbots as the new websites, and messaging platforms as the new browsers. "You should message a business just the way you would message a friend," declared Mark Zuckerberg when he launched the Facebook Messenger Platform for bots. He and the rest of the tech world are convinced that **conversation is the future of business**.

Ethics and accountability.

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

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education

And not for the reason you think.

By age 2, 92% of American children have an online footprint. What does that do to their psyches?

In these politically uncertain times, developers can help to **defend their users’ personal privacy** by adopting the _Privacy by Design (PbD)_ framework. These common-sense steps will become a requirement under the EU's imminent data protection overhaul, but the benefits of the framework go far beyond legal compliance. Let’s give credit where credit is due. The global political upheaval of the past 12 months has done more to get developers thinking about privacy, surveillance and **defensive user protection** than ever before. The risks and threats to ourselves, and to our users, are no lo...

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

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

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.

When a performed action happens faster than expected, users may not appreciate the effort put into it or believe that the action happened at all.

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.

Office culture is only part of the problem.

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.

It's an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out too much money—now have consequences worldwide. But still, countries operate independently, as if alone on the planet. Policy advisor Simon Anholt has dreamed up an unusual scale to get governments thinking outwardly: The Good Country Index. In a riveting and funny talk, he answers the question, "Which country does the most good?" The answer may surprise you (especially if you live in the US or China).

Outputs are more easily measured, but less important.

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?