Category "Design" (1/4)
How to design digital systems and artifacts that are usable, make sense and do not exclude anyone.
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Bookmark: "Link Targets and 3.2.5"
I can’t even remember how many times I have engaged in the discussion why links on websites should not open in new tabs. Sadly, the number of times I had to surrender and spoil otherwise user-friendly and accessible designs with the client request to “open external links in a new…
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A view back at the 9th A11Y Meetup Berlin ...and ahead to the A11Y Club Summit 2019
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!
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Reply to a Tweet by Eric Eggert
“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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Think-About! – a tech conference unique in concept and execution
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.
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Bookmark: "Dark Patterns at Scale"
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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Co-learning at Accessibility Club #8 - some notes and thoughts
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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Selected a11y insights from my past year
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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On low-hanging fruit and using the right tools for accessibility (A11Y Berlin meetup #6)
The 6th A11YBerlin meetup featured talks on “Getting the first 30% of accessibility issues” and “Accessible PDF”.
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CAPTCHAs are really, really bad UX design
Robin Christopherson just wrote an important article on the AbilityNet blog: “AI is making CAPTCHA increasingly cruel for disabled users”.
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Bookmark: "CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild"
The world’s first web browser, rebuilt to run within a modern browser - 30 years later.
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The UX design case of closed captions for everyone
Are video subtitles chiefly for users who cannot hear or lack an audio device?
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Bookmark: "Exclusive Design"
The first time I heard about Vasilis van Gemert’s experiment, in the lead-up to his talk at beyond tellerrand Berlin 2017, I openly admit it took me a moment to get my head around the idea. The thinking he applies to challenge and extend prevailing perspectives of “inclusion” can…
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Video of my talk at WUD Hamburg (in German)
The video recording of my talk on privacy as UX from Nov 2018 (“Datenschutz als User Experience”) is now available online.
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Bookmark: "Design Ethics and the Limits of the Ethical Designer"
This essay is an important contribution to the discussion of what exactly is “ethical” design and how it affects the design profession.
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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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Rail travelers need web accessibility, too!
Using train WiFi on a Deutsche Bahn train is a great example how accessibility efforts (here: image alt text on Twitter) benefit everybody.
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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.
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Bookmark: "Designing accessible web with privacy - when web browsing reveals information"
Lukasz Olejnik presents how implementing accessibility in browsers may compromise the privacy of users of assistive technology.
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IxDA Berlin #69: Inclusion and diversity - first hand
25 September 2018 marked the first World Interaction Design Day, running under the global theme of “Diversity and Inclusion in Design”. The Berlin IxDA chapter arranged an inspiring event, inviting two speakers who examine these issues both personally and professionally. IxDA Berlin…
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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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Bookmark: "Software disenchantment"
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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User-centred transparency design for privacy - Part I: The layered approach
The EDPB’s official “Guidelines on Transparency” under GDPR are a valuable, yet little-known, resource for designers. In this article, I examine the 40-pager for contributions on putting individuals in control of their personal data through user-centred design - beyond compliance…
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Bookmark: "Report: Deceived by Design"
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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Bookmark: "On Weaponised Design"
This may well be the most comprehensive article I’ve read this year so far on the topic of the ethical responsibility of designers. Its author, Cade, discusses “weaponised design”: “electronic systems whose designs either do not account for abusive application or whose user…
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UX for users with cookies disabled - a neat example
The design takes into account privacy-conscious users with cookies disabled. When closing the notification popup, the user learns that by using an alternative URL, they can reach a version of the site without the notification
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