Best Practices
Enable Content Control
Enable people to control who has access to their information and the content they share.
Enable Community Moderation
Community moderation enables people to protect themselves against malicious intent.
Focus on the Edge Cases
Design for a breadth of scenarios, especially those beyond MVP.
Balance Data with Research
Quantitative data may tell you what people are doing, but it doesn’t tell you why.
As companies push for scale and growth at breakneck pace they are weaponizing technology against groups that fall outside of their defined happy path.
Further Reading
Jesse Weaver Sarai Rosenberg Jesse Weaver Mike Moteiro Margaret Gould StewartWho Pays the Price of Happy Path Design?
Designing Products for Abuse
Resilience Is the Design Imperative of the 21st Century
Design’s Lost Generation
Able, Allowed, Should; Navigating Modern Tech Ethics