I had heard a lot of good things about beyond tellerrand, the semiannual web/design/tech conference in Germany. I was prepared to listen to an impressive line-up of speakers from the fields of both design and web technology. I was looking forward to reunite with old contacts and meet friendly
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LessPass - an #opensource #Password Manager with the opportunity of #selfhosting https://lesspass.com/ and https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass#self-host-your-lesspass-database
—Florian Weil This looks like an interesting approach for keeping passwords under private control, with the benefits of “centralized” access https://lesspass.com #selfhosting
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21st Century Skills and the Web. This is very good. https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy #elearning #edutech #edtech #design
—Teemu Leinonen “A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills” by Mozilla; interesting model indeed! https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy
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The results from this large-scale study by Nielsen Norman Group are significant not so much for what usability issues they identified to be most common, but the fact that these are still the same basic problems that have been around as long as websites have: The big news? None of the top issues
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One week to go for IndieWebCamp Berlin! Join us: https://indieweb.org/2016/Berlin
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Amen! Erika Hall presents why purely user-centred design is out-of-date, explains how data-driven design is actually bias-driven design, and debunks the myth of the genius designer working chiefly based on intuition. And offers her own alternative approach: We need evidence-based design. Because
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The fifth edition of IndieWebCamp Brighton saw a good two dozen enthusiasts gather for a weekend of debating, brainstorming and prototyping the social web of the future. Amongst a myriad of random inspirations, many of which for sure will find their way into projects of mine in the near future, I would like to summarize three main takeaways from this memorable weekend in Brighton […]
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Just getting started on reading up on the proceedings from the August #MyData conference in Helsinki. “The best outcome for personal data is that we all naturally think of data as we think of money,” says Lawrence [Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield, UK]: some money we keep full
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A great read on how the long history of discrimination by design continues in the realm of the digital. It’s likely that as long as humans and their institutions hold prejudices and bias, their designs will reflect them. This upsets me every time I see yet another shiny digital product that
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I occasionally find myself accused of being overly critical of cloud services. Which I am not - per se. My critique is not about the technology and its undeniable potential, but about the terms at which it is provided …and the prevailing silence with which these are commonly accepted. The
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The IoT Design manifesto aims to set guidelines for responsible design in a connected world: We don’t believe the hype We design useful things We aim for the Win-Win-Win We keep everyone and every thing secure We build and promote a culture of privacy We are deliberate about what data we
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It is easy for me to subscribe to each and every of Adam Scott’s Principles of Ethical Web Development: Web applications should work for everyone Web applications should work everywhere Web applications should respect a user’s privacy and security Web developers should be considerate
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Based on my experiences from teaching at Aalto University’s design department last fall, all hope is not lost on the issues this op-ed on the New York Times raises: If the most fundamental definition of design is to solve problems, why are so many people devoting so much energy to solving
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Cifas, a non-profit for fraud protection, recently published “Data to Go”, a brilliant candid camera clip. Passers-by are asked to “like” a coffee shop on Facebook in exchange for a cup of free coffee …and, as they will find out, a lot more: they receive a mug with all