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Humane by Design
Design principles and practical patterns focused on digital well-being and ethics.
Humane by Design is a curated design resource by Jon Yablonski that provides frameworks and guidance for building ethical digital products. It offers core principles, deep-dive articles, and practical design patterns addressing issues like digital addiction, user agency, and mindful interaction.
What it's for
- Apply ethical design principles to product interaction design
- Design intentional friction to protect user privacy and attention
- Evaluate user agency trade-offs in algorithmic personalization
Features
- Core principles including Empowering, Finite, and Inclusive design
- Digital garden featuring emerging concepts like context adaptation and intentional friction
- Articles exploring ethical implications of digital interfaces and personalization
- Curated directory of external ethical design resources and tools
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Website
- Category
- Design
- Topic
- Design Principles
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web
- For
- Product designers, UX/UI designers, and digital product teams.
- Tags
- ethical design, ux, ui, digital wellbeing, product design, design guidelines
Why it was saved
- @ui.ux.jam: Gives UX/UI designers actionable frameworks for mindful design, such as context adaptation, intentional friction, and user personalization limits.
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