Digital Ethics

As a designer I’ve spent the last decade translating human needs and desires into experiences that fulfill them, and I’m convinced : the…

The case against empathy.

Company acknowledges ‘passive’ consumption of material can make people ‘feel worse’ but argues more engagement could improve wellbeing

The last year has demonstrated a sea change in design, as designers have created products that serve our deepest needs, rather than exploit them.

It's a way of quantifying a friendship, and it has a dark side.

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

In experience design, friction is usually the opposite of being intuitive or effortless. However, that doesn't mean that it's always bad for the users. In this article, you'll learn when and how friction can be an efficient tool to actually design better experiences.

Data science seems to be computer people trying to do social sciences without learning the foundations of our scientific approaches.— Laura Linda Laugwitz (@lauralindal) November 6, 2017

Today’s guest is a repeat visitor to the show whose last episode proved to be one of our most popular. Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke Un

Once in a while we feel the need to write about an uncomfortable feeling that's been niggling us. This post is one. It expresses a discomfort we have about so-called

Over the past few decades, the boundaries between the public (government), private (business), and social (non-profit) sectors have been blurring as many pionee

Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's inherent growth tendencies and innate psychological needs. It is concerned with the motivation behind choices people make without external influence and interference. SDT focuses on the degree to which an individual's behavior is self-motivated and self-determined.[1][2][3]

You can build it, but should you?

A while back I wrote something which made a number of people angry: Any new social structure must throw off surplus that people can live on, and that surplus must not be able to be bought up by the old system, which will seek to do so. The ban against selling out/being bought out must be irrational and ideological. Rational people

“What can we help you with today?”

Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP

"The Influential Mind" introduces less-than-intuitive tactics for changing beliefs and behaviors.

A data collection service called SafeGraph collected 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones during the holiday last year.

The French are putting legal limits on being “on.”

It's Your World. Sexual Violence Doesn't Belong in It.

What is the role of a designer?

Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist

What you think you believe and what your unconscious associations reveal about your beliefs are often very different.

Challenge implicit biases by identifying your own, teaching colleagues about them, observing gap-closing teachers, stopping "tone policing," and tuning into such biases at your school.

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Francesca Gino, an associate professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the…

The O’Reilly Radar Podcast: AI on the hype curve, imagining nurturing technology, and gaps in the AI conversation.

Dan Turner explores the gray areas of user expectations, honest interfaces, and making design decisions with integrity.