Digital Ethics

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.

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

When Amsterdam removed signals from a busy junction, it made journeys faster and interactions more pleasant. Now the approach is being copied across the city

Free enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most…

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

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

The case against empathy.

We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.

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

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

I don’t want to brag, but I’m really good at sleeping. I close my eyes and fall asleep in about 45 seconds. I wake up eight hours later, no interruptions. Once, I read a Reddit thread about how sl

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

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

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

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

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.

What is the role of a designer?

Stripping out irritating ad formats and limiting the number of ads forced on visitors can actually increase ad revenue, some publishers say.

The many ways design decisions treat people unequally

The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.

The proliferation of digital disinformation is

The planned hearing comes as the Senate Intelligence Committee has increased its scrutiny of social media and search sites, following Facebook's disclosure that a Russian troll farm purchased $100,000

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

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

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