Ben Sauer’s article is the first time I’ve heard about “Chesterton’s Law”:
“reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.”The article aims to be a reminder that judging design from the […]
January 2017
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I came, I looked, I judged: I misunderstood. slapdashery.org
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Currently doing some research into the trendy “conversational UX” trend, these nine learnings from Adrian Zumbrunnen turning his website into a chatbot are interesting to read.
Designing conversational experiences is hard because the concept of a conversation comes with […]
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The Ikeaisation of the Web filmicweb.org
In this read-worthy flaming letter, Joscha Jaeger responds to a claim by Facebook’s director of design Jon Lax that “the web is dying” and highlights how this framing is that of a big corporation who merely sees the web as delivery platform for their business […]
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Solid solid.mit.edu
Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved […]
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Joscha Jaeger's post about "Web Ikeasation" is pertinent and demands an urgent revision of some design and user experience dogmas
A well formulated call-to-action in defence of the freedom of the web: http://filmicweb.org/open-web/ikeaisation-of-the-web/ “Learn, teach, advocate” says @OpenHypervideo
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What do scientists, regulators and lawyers mean when they talk about de-identification? How does anonymous data differ from pseudonymous or de-identified information? Data identifiability is not binary. Data lies on a spectrum with multiple shades of identifiability.
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There is a lot of interesting analysis and recommendation in the “Growing up digital” report from the UK’s Children’s Commissioner referenced in this article - and the simplified terms and conditions (that nobody ever reads) are only the most obvious of its gems - , but the […]
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Duped by the Automated Public Sphere discoversociety.org
In this article, professor of law at the University of Maryland Frank Pasquale, makes the case for why automated generation of “news content” is so dangerous to our societies. Yet, this is not only about automation, but also about commercialisation:
The public sphere cannot […]
