2019 (1/3)
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I much enjoyed one of the Berlin Accessibility Meetup talks this week. Besides, this is the perfect time to remind about our A11Y Club Summit on 16/17 Nov - sign-ups are still open! -
"Periodic reminder that not everyone has a 'first name' and a 'last name'" ..and that not all names consist of six or more characters
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Today's "co-working space" onboard the X2000 from Malmö to Stockholm beats flying not just in terms of the carbon footprint, but seat comfort, legroom, flawless WiFi, gastronomy service, staff attentiveness and window views. Even it weren't for #flygskam, I'd have a hard time to justify taking the plane instead. -
Just two topics: Snowden's memoirs, and the climate crisis
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User research myths, privacy dark patterns, responsibilities, social cohesion, innocence lost, and climate injustice
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While my own solution is specific to Kirby CMS, two new alternatives for self-hosted “website strike” banners have been shared - both great options to join the #globalclimatestrike with privacy-friendly solutions. -
Faxbook faxbook.org
This piece of critical media art is just down my alley:
Tired of wasting your entire day on Facebook? Tired of apps and wish you could return to 1986? Faxbook can help. Delete your Facebook account, dust off that old fax machine, and get connected to us on Faxbook: a real, working […]
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Manipulative ad tracking, the "perfect user" bias, the right to log off, barcodes as mobile media, and climate refugees
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I wrote a small Kirby 3 plugin for temporarily shutting down my website on 20 Sep. -
Google's privacy charades, regulation of the web, legal education for developers, cash as a human right, negligence as malice, and eco-friendly wellbeing.
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A tech conference focusing not only on technology and design, but on social impact and responsibility – when I first heard about the new Think-About! conference, the ticket was an almost instant purchase. And the event turned out to even exceed my already high expectations. This is hands down my new favourite conference. -
IACCM Contract Design & Pattern Library contract-design.iaccm.com
The Contract Design Pattern Library is an open and growing reference of design patterns for creating usable contracts in the “legal design” spirit.
This Library, curated by World Commerce & Contracting, is an ongoing collection of contract design patterns – […]
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu
In addition to quantifying the depressing amount of manipulative and deceptive dark patters on the web, this paper describes an interesting methodology, using a bot that is able to detect dark patterns. The key theoretical contribution is an empirically grounded categorisation of 15 types of dark […]
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Accessibility Club is a meetup where professionals, enthusiasts and curious novices discuss how to create accessible digital technology. The 8th event of this series once again saw me inspired by what is essentially a random agenda with unpredictable topics - and outcomes! The day started with two […]
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Designing accessible technology is a continuous learning process. These are some insights from the past year I wrote about on this blog.
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Opt-out as luxury, digital privacy reckoning, terminology ambiguity, harmful patterns, loss of deniability, personal websites and the destructive impact of cheap flights.
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Designing and creating my personal Kirby 3 webmentions solution. -
Data Patterns Catalogue catalogue.projectsbyif.com
Privacy-related pattern libraries are a neat tool for designers. While not necessarily ready to use in a “plug-and-play” matter (the list of Pros and Cons commonly is just too complex to re-use patterns 1:1), they provide valuable pointers to reflect on possible design options. The […]
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An Art 14 GDPR precedent, adtech on gov websites, data security in self-hosting, guerilla a11y, Cuban internet proxies, and ecocide.
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Growth hacking, white supremacy in tech, edge cases, persistence, digital resignation, and strangershots.
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That said, you will also find some information about our meetup in Düsseldorf on May 15th, right after @btconf. Tickets are available NOW! Also, please expect more updates soon-ish, finally including the full documentation of last November's conference. Have a great weekend!
Joschi Kuphal and a11yclub just released the tickets for the Accessibility Club meetup Düsseldorf 2019, May 15!
