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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 …

Let me begin with a prescriptive statement: major social media companies ought to consult with trained social researchers to design interfaces, implement policies, and understand the implications o…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

“What can we help you with today?”

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

You can build it, but should you?

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]

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

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

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

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

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

With toys for children that declare their love and want to chat, we bring to life a longstanding fantasy that machines might be our companions, that they might seem to not only be smart, but also to care about us.