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70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Discussing design ethics at World Usability Day Hamburg 2018

This year's World Usability Day featured "Design for Good or Evil", and I got the opportunity to attend the Hamburg edition of this always-inspiring global community event. With a topic so close to my heart, it was great to attend a range of sessions surrounding design ethics and meet interesting people.
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I got "sketchnoted"!

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Big thank you to Ania Groß for this souvenir from Hamburg.
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Rail travelers need web accessibility, too!

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Using train WiFi on a Deutsche Bahn train is a great example how accessibility efforts (here: image alt text on Twitter) benefit everybody.
#design-for-all
2018

Links und Quellen zu meinem Talk beim World Usability Day Hamburg 2018

[In German] Sources and mentioned resources from my talk on "Privacy as UX" at the World Usability Day 2018 in Hamburg/Germany.
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User-centred transparency design for privacy – Part II: Content design

This follow-up on the "layered approach" discusses the EDPB guidelines’ suggestions for shaping the transparency information itself: content, language, accessibility, intelligibility, etc.
2018

Reposting a Tweet by World Usability Day

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8 Nov is World Usability Day - the 2018 motto is “Design for Good or Evil”. I am thrilled about being invited to present on “Privacy as UX” at the WUD Hamburg/Germany (event in German), and excited for a day of inspiring talks and […]
2018

Designing accessible web with privacy - when web browsing reveals information

blog.lukaszolejnik.com

Lukasz Olejnik presents how implementing accessibility in browsers may compromise the privacy of users of assistive technology.
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Accessibility Club conference Berlin, Nov 5

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Today is the day: secure your ticket. Non-profit, great speakers, wonderful ppl behind.
#design-for-all
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The Digital Human - Jigsaw

bbc.co.uk

This brilliant Podcast episode makes the rather abstract formula that "privacy is not about individuals' decisions" tangible through real-life examples.
2018

Law By Design — the book by Margaret Hagan

lawbydesign.co

This “living e-book” by Margaret Hagan — summarizing her learnings of 3+ years of practice — is likely the best primer to be found on the topic of “legal design”:
This book sets forth an agenda for innovation […]
2018

The Legal Design Summit Recap: Uncharted Territory

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A summary of the Legal Design Summit Helsinki 2017.
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How did the GDPR come to be? And what do a film maker and two NGOs think about it?

I’ve praised and recommended this film before: “Democracy - Im Rausch der Daten”. Even watching it again, at an event that was part of the first Privacy Week Berlin (hosted by the Europe Direct Informationszentrum Berlin bei der […]
2018

IxDA Berlin #69: Inclusion and diversity - first hand

My preferred conference talks are commonly those with a personal story behind. The latest IxDA Berlin meeting, taking place on the first World Interaction Design Day, featured not just one, but two highly relatable presenters whose message is closely […]
#design-for-all
2018

Note, published 25 Sep 2018

“Make something usable, relevant and simple for anyone to use”
— Eriol Fox, on diversity in design at IxDA Berlin #69
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The Tyranny of Convenience

nytimes.com

This NYT op-ed by Tim Wu speaks to me in so many ways. It links my fascination for research on technology non-use with what I call a "constructively critical approach" to interaction design, and justifies all the countless days invested in debates on the Indieweb, on discussions about decentralisation and empowerment, on considering alternatives to mainstream solutions and working to promote the value of design ethics.
2018

Event picks for Privacy Week Berlin 2018

Privacy Week Berlin is taking place next week for the first time, with a range of interesting events (mostly in German, it appears). Here are my picks, if only my schedules allow.
2018

Software disenchantment

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This is "design" turned upside down - complete ignorance for the user. Bigger, more complex, poor performance. Wasn't the main reason we are doing this to solve people's problems, not create new ones?
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The costs and benefits of tracking scripts - business vs. user

Jeremy Keith: "Too many businesses treat analytics and tracking scripts as victimless technologies—they only see the benefits (in data acquisation) without understanding the costs (in performance)."
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Upcoming talk at Webkongress Erlangen, 11-13 Sep 2018

On my blog: a teaser on one topic from my #wke2018 “Privacy as UX” talk: User-centred transparency design for privacy – Part I: The layered approach German-speaking web professional? Join us at Webkongress Erlangen, 11-13 Sep!  
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User-centred transparency design for privacy - Part I: The layered approach

The goal of various guideline documents published by the former Article 29 Working Party (WP29) and its successor, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), is to enable data controllers (e.g. website operators) to consistently apply GDPR requirements as […]
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Reposting a Tweet by Jared Spool

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This. One of the things I enjoy most about doing research is to unveil realities that are different from what everybody “believed to know”.
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Report: Deceived by design

forbrukerradet.no

A detailed report, documenting how Google, Facebook and Microsoft use UI dark patterns to deceive and manipulate users towards accepting low privacy defaults; by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
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Modern myth: Nothing to hide? Collected responses to a dangerous fallacy

digitalcourage.de

Anyone who is concerned with surveillance will hear this statement over and over again. Though dangerous and false, it is very persistent. And we are fed up with it. Ten points against the notion that you have “nothing to hide”.
2018

IxDA Berlin #67: The strategic role of UX research

What made the combination of these two talks so powerful is their underlying message in combination: (UX) research is all about asking the right questions, using the right tools and embedding the activities in the organisational context to fit the processes, but maybe even more importantly to inject user-centred thinking into team culture.
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