nytimes.com This is not the first report of how social networking sites run opaque “research” experiments on their users, and it is not going to be the last. But turning the users of your service into lab rats without them being aware of it, with potentially life-altering outcomes […]
September 2022
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Accessibility is systemic
adactio.com 
Jeremy Keith making the case for promoting accessibility on a system level:
Imagine someone who’s an expert at accessibility: they know all the details of WCAG and ARIA. Now put that person into an organisation that doesn’t prioritise accessibility. They’re going to have a hard […]
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Hands-On Sustainable Web Design
branch.climateaction.tech 
As an assumed 3.8% of global greenhouse emissions stem from “the digital world” (hard to define that more precisely, I assume), Laurent Devernay’s primer on how to make web design more sustainable is probably not the cure, but an important step in the right direction. Saving a bit […]
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Different brains are beautiful because they think differently on a whole other level.
What an intro for an article about UX for neurodiverse users! Different brains are beautiful indeed. This article by Ashlea McKay starts from some key facts about ASD and then builds a […] -
This must be the most thorough walk-through on accessible navigation patterns on the interwebs?
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Minimum Viable Data Collection
hidde.blog The question all website owners should be asking, is: do we really, really need these trackers to exist on our pages? Can’t we do the things we want to do without trackers?
Hidde de Vries presents simple thought exercises to reflect on tracking. He starts with […] -
Why your website should work without Javascript
endtimes.dev 
For some reason, the myth that users without JavaScript don't exist, refuses to die. So thank you to the author of this comprehensive collection of both statistics (1% of millions is still a lot of people!) and – more importantly – all the other reasons that may, even temporarily, turn web users into "users with no JavaScript". -
Stumblizer
indieseek.xyz In the good old days, there was no full-text search for the web. It was all about directories; phonebook-like services (Yahoo being the most prolific, I assume) that categorized the web. Indieseek.xyz continues this tradition, with a strong Indieweb flavour. But the most fun feature of the catalog […]
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Don’t Hide the Tech. Too much artifice is a symptom of something wrong
rushkoff.medium.com Douglas Rushkoff’s argument against hiding technology by making it appear more human-friendly strikes a chord:
I’m happy for technology to be more “humane,” but not if that means disguising entirely inhumane algorithmic manipulation in more pleasant […]
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Folk Interfaces
maggieappleton.com 
“Folk Interfaces” by Maggie Appleton is a fascinating summary of an aspect of design that is actually somewhat related to my interest in “non-use” as a gradient: the “other-use”, so to say…
Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing […]
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ADL Social Pattern Library | Anti hate by design
socialpatterns.adl.org 
Conscious designers are well aware of the risks of online hate and harassment in social platforms. The Social Pattern Library wants to provide patterns to mitigate such risks through proven and tested strategies.
The Escalating Spiral of Online Hate model illustrates how hate is […]
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