Digital Ethics

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 …

Designers are vulnerable to the same cognitive biases as users. The context in which you present a problem can bias your design choices.

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.

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

A talk with Jonathan Shariat, a Silicon-Valley based director of product & design. Most conversations about the value of user experience (UX) are in relation to what we can get from it: Supercharge conversions! Boost repeat business! Increase form completion rates! These things aren’t actually

"Success is measured by number of downloads and star ratings on the app store."

Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, is determined to find the answer.

Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertiser...

Green patterns are UX choices that create great user experiences for people while also providing sustainable options for the planet.

As computer programmers write code that runs everything from airplanes to pharmacy orders, there's a serious need for ethical training and guidelines.

I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we…

In the last few months I’ve had a lot of designers ask me “Where can I do good work?”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean…

Five questions for designers

My talk at the 2016 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit, Atlanta. With notes.

Presentation from Oz-IA 2007 about ethical issues and professionalism for designers

Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.

A selection of quotes on ethics, morality, humanity and universal causation from Albert Einstein.

One way to improve democracy is for more people to appreciate its complex technological underpinnings.

Jared M. Spool explains design as "the rendering of intent." Simply put, this is when the designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make that outcome real.

“If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about. Photo: Francis Clarke for Wikimedia The tweet that started it all i'm curious to know: if you have a disability, what's the hardest […]

Our Free Ethics Courses collection features college and university level courses available for free online on audio & video.

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

What can we do to prepare? We need to set up pre-emptive standards, think tanks, regulations, and private-public partnerships.

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

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.

newsletter #32 | 16-Jan-2018