Articles about Privacy

Designing for Social Technologies: Responsible Privacy Design

Concerns about negative social consequences can be a barrier to online participation. UX designers have the opportunity and responsibility to design for overcoming this. [Read More]

Supporting Mainframe Data Compliance: A UX Approach

Build user knowledge and apply UX principles to improve user decision-making and data identification to ensure mainframe data compliance. [Read More]

Building an Ethics Framework for UX Design, Part 2

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Ethical issues, surprisingly caused by benevolent intent, are often left unnoticed in UX design. Conscious awareness is the primary step in tackling these pressing issues. [Read More]

Building an Ethics Framework for UX Design

A compilation and categorization of the different ethical issues within UX design [Read More]

Getting Better Design Feedback: Anonymized User Research

Anonymity can affect the quality of user research. To ensure anonymity, UX professionals must set expectations around privacy and follow best practices about revealing personal information that might identify research participants. [Read More]

Online Healthcare: Designing Senior-Friendly Privacy

Challenges in creating an online service experience at Philips Home Monitoring for senior users included privacy, user experience, legacy system constraints, and communication. [Read More]

Privacy Meets Technology: Two Views of “The Circle” (Book Review)

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Two responses to The Circle by David Eggers. Lessons on privacy, information, and technology [Read More]

Gaining User Trust: Research and a Secret

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A good user experience for trust and privacy decisions depends on making it SECRET: scoped, equitable, contextual, responsible, emotional and timely. [Read More]

The View from Here: E-Government Needs to Do More to Ensure Citizens’ Privacy

As governments increasingly move to online channels, they must do so without compromising the privacy of citizens. [Read More]