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Design for Safety, An Excerpt

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically , do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to integrate safety principles into your design work in order to create tech that’s safe, how to convince your stakeholders that this work is necessary, and how to respond to the critique that what we actually need is more diversity. (Spoiler: we do, but diversity alone is not the antidote to fixing unethical, unsafe tech.) The process for inclusive safety When you are designing for safety, your goals are to: identify ways your product can be used for abuse, design ways to prevent the abuse, and provide support for vulnerable users to reclaim power and control.…

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