Design
Cover for my forthcoming book from Rosenfeld Media.
Here’s a first for me: a book cover reveal! Above you’ll see the cover for my forthcoming book Design for Privacy, which should be available from Rosenfeld Media in November, 2025. I’m so excited to see this out in the world.
Design for Privacy will advocate for the practice of “privacy by design” and examine specific and often alarming examples of these issues. Designers will learn the four pillars for privacy-centered experience design and best practices, with both good and bad examples to visualize problems along the way, so they can design more confidently with privacy in mind. And they’ll learn how to cultivate a culture which enables privacy by design.
For more about the book, visit its page over at Rosenfeld Media, where you can also signup for updates.
I had a wonderful time presenting to the Brooklyn Product Design meetup on the topic of AI and Privacy—especially from the perspective of how UXers and product designers can position themselves to help mitigate these emerging issues. It’s a fascinating topic, which is evolving at a pace we can hardly keep up with. This is the second time I’ve presented to this group, and they’re always such a lovely and engaging audience!
I've been presenting on the topic of privacy by design to companies and organizations, as well as my students at SVA for several years now. I just took an Illustrator class, and, for my final project, thought it'd be fun to boil that presentation down to fit into a tri-fold pamphlet, which I could distribute or folks could download if they'd like. The pamphlet version of “Designing for Privacy in an Increasingly Public World” highlights 7 best practices for privacy by design, as well as some high-level reasons our clients will want to pay attention to their customers' privacy concerns.
🔗 https://shorturl.at/syDOQ (PDF)
Update: You can also read an article version of this topic over on both UX Collective and UX Magazine.
I hope to use Technique to develop and distribute artifacts like this in the future, too. And I'm trying to determine whether this topic can be translated into a book, which would allow me to address the topic much more comprehensively, accompanying each point with case studies, illustrations, and even suggested redesigns for problem examples.
Reach out if you're interested in a presentation to your company or organization on the topic.
I interviewed Portland-based developer Hannah Kolbeck to discuss how Twitter’s proposed API changes will further undermine accessibility for its users.
Hannah created two apps—AltTextUtil and AltTxtReminder—which utilize Twitter's API to enable accessibility for images on the platform. When Twitter eventually added (some) similar functionality, Anil Dash noted that the debut of Twitter’s feature lacked acknowledgment of Hannah and others, who had such tools "that have been helping with accessibility on the platform for years.”
Anecdotally, Hannah says, a couple of Blind people have told her when her bot becomes inactive, Twitter will cease being usable for them.
While writing this piece, I noticed that Twitter has suspended AltTxtReminder. Hannah told me Twitter never notified her about that suspension, nor have they provided any reason for it since.