I’m excited to reveal my participation as a track leader in the newly launched professional development program Ambition Empower. In this venture, Ambition are offering access to four specialised tracks related to design and design leadership, helping you stay on top of, and ahead on, topics that are important to…

Apple has announced new functionality coming to their devices this autumn. The announcement has stirred up debate and damnation in the privacy community. And also disappointment among Apple users who have previously celebrated Apple’s attention to privacy. Meanwhile, the purpose for these functions carry a moral imperative that can easily…

I love a good meme and have been looking through many of the different versions of the “Types of Scientific Paper” meme on Twitter. Not a single one I’ve come across has had an image description in the form of ALT (alternative) text. Unfortunately this is really common when it…

Political philosopher Dr Annette Zimmermann published a very piercing cartoon on Twitter. It is a pastiche of the XKCD cartoon Types of Scientific Paper, and creatively reimagines titles of papers that expose flawed thinking around AI Ethics that we come across in the industry on day-to-day basis. I have provided…

This week, Apple launched a new physical product aimed at keeping track of your belongings: AirTag. These are small round tiles that you can attach to keys, bags and vehicles, allowing you to see where they are on a map. They also introduce a risk for people who are targets…

I’ve been working for some months on this chart as a summary of the many ways digital holds potential for negative impact. Alongside the chart I’ve provided a brief summary of the meaning of the currently six sections and 32 elements. I am not an opponent of digital. I am…

Once we recognise digital harm as a form of abuse it becomes clear how the same patterns of victim-blaming that we see in all abusive relationships tend to be repeated. — – This article was originally published on axbom.blog. One of the most common rebuttals I hear when talking about harmful design is the idea that “people can just leave if they don’t like it”. This follows a similar pattern to all abusive relationships where one party is exerting power over…

A rarely talked about field of research, known as keystroke dynamics, involves identifying individuals based on how they type on a keyboard. It’s getting better, and also easier for anyone to implement. — Originally published on axbom.blog on November 30, 2020. As early as 1860, experienced telegraph operators realized they could actually recognize each individual by everyone’s unique tapping rhythm. To the trained ear, the soft tip-tap of every operator could be as recognizable as the spoken voice of a family member.