🖥 The Ethical User Interface

Written by asadrah | Published 2021/06/16
Tech Story Tags: tech-ethics | ui | ui-design | design-ethics | ethics | user-interface | ui-ux | ui-developer

TLDR User interface channels and manipulates your behaviour. The more minimal the UI, the stronger the manipulation it has the stronger effect. When UI aims to minimise your options, who decides what those options are? What are their incentives, their biases, their reasoning? In short: who is channeling your behaviour? In the modern, minimal UI is more like Kirkegaard and Aristotle, and what ethics in technology is modern, is minimalism. Any company that buries data and buries personal data is ethical.via the TL;DR App

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Written by asadrah | Work with teams to build tech for global good | Write about it on asadrahman.io | Born: Pakistan. Living: Rwanda
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/06/16