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toward an ethical product design framework

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Deep under the Disneyland Resort Hotel in California, far from the throngs of happy tourists, laundry workers clean thousands of sheets, blankets, towels and comforters every day. Workers feed the heavy linens into hot, automated presses to iron out wrinkles, and load dirty laundry into washers and dryers large enough to sit in.

How employers have gamified work for...

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I used to be largely indifferent to claims about the use of private data for targeted advertising, even as I worried about privacy more generally. How much of an intrusion was it, really, for a merchant to hit me with a banner ad for dog food instead of cat food, since it had reason to believe I owned a dog?

Platforms Should Become Information...

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Updated 10 days ago

Adapted from Playful Generative Art: Computer-Mediated Creativity and Ephemeral Expressions , presented at Simon Fraser University in February 2017 Any technology as powerful as artificial intelligence provokes ethical questions. Does AI make killing by remote control too consequence-free? Do AI models systematize existing biases? Are we coding ourselves out of jobs?

Ethical imperatives in AI and...

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150 principles for a new direction in tech - The principles were created by hundred and fifty humans in 48 hours at Techfestival in Copenhagen as the next step after The Copenhagen Letter.

The Copenhagen Catalog

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Updated 25 days ago

Yet another debate about the utility of personas erupts on Design Twitter, and I have to ask myself, "Is design getting better?" And, in trying to ask more thoughtful questions: "How will we know if design is getting better?"

UX in the Age of Abusability -...

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Updated 25 days ago

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Last week, Facebook rolled out an update to the design of its News Feed. The design tweaks-near imperceptible pixel spacing and color enhancements-were meant to make Facebook's infinitely updating cascade of stories even easier to consume and comment on. "Small changes, like a few extra pixels of padding or the tint of a button, can have...

Designers are using "dark UX" to turn...

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How we're designing Monzo to be a powerful and unique financial service for our most vulnerable customers.

Designing a product with mental health...

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Already dealing with backlash from employees who object to working with government agencies, major tech companies are now facing criticism from a new source - prospective hires. Posted on August 27, 2018, at 4:02 p.m. ET When Matt Meshulam, a Chicago-based software engineer, received a cold recruiting email from Amazon, he already knew he wouldn't be taking the interview.

Clashes Over Ethics At Major Tech...

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Updated 2 months ago

This is the first talk in a series on Ending the Attention Economy. For more information--and to join a community of designers trying this approach--see http://nxhx.org/RedefiningSoftware/.

Empowering Design; (Ending the...

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Updated 2 months ago

Lena Groeger We've seen how design can keep us away from harm and save our lives. But there is a more subtle way that design influences our daily decisions and behavior - whether we know it or not. It's not sexy or trendy or flashy in any way. I'm talking about defaults.

Set It and Forget It: How Default...

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Updated 2 months ago

Digital media platforms like Google and Facebook may disavow responsibility for the results of their algorithms, but they can have tremendous - and disturbing - social effects. Racist and sexist bias, misinformation, and profiling are frequently unnoticed byproducts of those algorithms. And unlike public institutions (like the library), Google and Facebook have no transparent curation process by which the public can judge the credibility or legitimacy of the information they propagate.

Google and the Misinformed Public

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Updated 2 months ago

When MTV News laid off a big chunk of its writing staff recently, the company line was that it would be " shifting resources into short-form video content." When Vocativ fired its entire editorial team in June, it was " undertaking a strategic shift to focus exclusively on video content."

Diminishing Returns - Real Life

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Updated 2 months ago

Towards_A_Fairer_Gig_Economy.pdf

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Here's an idea that's so basic and so true as to ring strange: the UI is all there is. For us humans, there's no access to the computer but through the UI; so the UI is computation. The UI is the computer.

the ui is the computer

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Norman-Potter-Design-for-designing.pdf

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