Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control.

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

There are things you want to do. There are things you need to do. Sometimes these are the same. This post is how to handle life when they aren't. The sensation of thinking of a task can be pleasant or painful. This is because your brain is always predicting how rewarding any future scenario will

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.

A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm.

We just finished a primary election in California, and every day in the past month I’ve come home to 20 or more pieces of mail, almost…

Are you rushing from field work to findings?

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...

Neil Pawley offers a different perspective on Steve Krug's industry-defining Don't Make Me Think.

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

Yesterday, I talked about design as being “empathy in action”. I ended the post by questioning how Learning Health Systems can make sure empathy with their users – patients and pr…

Ethics involves the application of a moral code to the practice of medicine. Ideals and the Hippocratic Oath have been covered in another article but it...

Researchers at AI Now say algorithms increasingly used by government can be opaque and discriminatory.

As artificial intelligence reshapes law enforcement, healthcare, education and more, tech firms need to widen their data lens.

By: Benjamin Kumpf, Innovation Policy Specialist, UNDP

Norman is an artificial intelligence which sees death and destruction in everything.

Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

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

Progressive disclosure is a great interaction design technique. With progressive disclosure, you provide the user with the amount of…

newsletter #32 | 16-Jan-2018

Many have argued that the use of dark patterns and aggressive persuasion in web design is unethical. But what about from a purely business perspective?

TeenSafe, a service used by parents to monitor the online behaviors and phone activity of their children, allowed tens of thousands of accounts to leak online after failing to properly secure their servers.

For the past two years, food campaigners have watched in alarm as the Aadhaar I.D. system has taken hold in India’s bureaucracy.

Yesterday Digiday published The GDPR will help or hurt publishers, depending on who you ask, by Ross Benes (@RossBenes). I was one of the…