We’ve been experimenting with micro-learning videos at Superbloom — short lessons on human-centred security, ethical design, harmful patterns, and more.
Here’s one from Molly on what security + design have in common: (spoiler: real humans + shortcuts)
🎥 Watch (4:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbnSw6vckWs
Got feedback or ideas for future topics? DM us!
We're teaming up with Helpful Places to grow the open-source ecosystem around DTPR.
This program is made possible with grant support from the U.S. @NSF
This next phase is about:
👀 Seeing – making invisible tech in public spaces visible
🛠️ Building – research, community spaces, and shared governance
🔁 Shifting – moving transparency from one-off pilots to a public expectation
Read the announcement here:
https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/growing-the-dtpr-ecosystem-a-new-chapter-for-digital-trust-and-transparency/
Attending #MozFest this week?
Join us today at 1:30 p.m. CET for the Internet Exchange talk, 'Encryption and Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance.'
Superbloom’s @georgia will help facilitate a discussion on the imperative to create systems for child safety rooted in encryption and feminist principles—not mass surveillance.
Secure your spot and add the session to your schedule now: https://mzf.st/160
Sean J Dorr and Daniel F. Keefe present "Toward Design Justice in Data Visualization: An Ojibwe Language and Medicine Wheel Approach for Designing Data Visualizations" at @altvisworkshop with a focus on this #DesignJustice principal:
"Before seeking new design solutions, we look for what is already working at the community level. We honor and uplift traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge and
practices."
“Open source doesn’t just belong to developers: it belongs to anyone willing to make it stronger, safer, and more usable.”
At #OSSummitEU, Eriol Fox reflects on seeing open source through a designer’s eyes and how design, security, and trust all connect.
What does it take to sustain design in open source? At Sustain Africa, conversations turned to trust, mentorship, and visibility, along with how design often remains invisible in OSS ecosystems. As Victory Brown shares, sustaining design isn’t technical; it’s cultural.
If you'd like to learn more about the history of tech workers organizing to hold their companies accountable, I wrote a bit about it here:
Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice · designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
Directions for Future Work: Fr...
Design isn’t neutral — it’s decisive.
On Brave UX, we talked about something subtle but critical: how poor typography in election ballots can lead to real-world confusion.
This clip from the episode has been quietly resonating — thanks to Brendan Jarvis for surfacing this moment.
🎧 Full episode here → https://youtu.be/1WcXHhvMhls?si=v6mzbU2sdzZ3_JoX
#ElectionDesign #TypographyMatters #UXNow #DesignEducation #BraveUX #DesignJustice #Sorbonne
No one signed the denial. No one made the decision. But the harm arrived anyway.
🎥 New short film: The Disappearance of Accountability
📖 Companion post: The Bureaucratic Abyss
Kafka foresaw the system. We built it.
Watch + read:
🔗 https://redefine.pt/2025/07/10/the-bureaucratic-abyss/
🎬 https://youtu.be/M754BTKTjXM
#theruleofnobody #kafkaesque #systemdesign #digitalwelfare #bureaucracy #publicaccountability #shortfilm #designjustice #techandsociety
@Creech it's that time!!!
I just proposed a hands-on workshop to improve a key Drupal contributed module with a product design process, rooted in design justice.
It's almost #FollowFriday.
The day to showcase great accounts on here that others should follow too.
(You do follow all the accounts I recommend, don't you! *shakes finger*)
First up I want to make a shout out to @tylerdckey a very wonderful human.
You can find them involved in #Regen #ComplexSystems #BodyBuilding #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #FirstNationsJustice
All around excellent human who literally just joined Mastodon tonight!
Second up @mollie. Mollie is a fellow #Designer based in #KaurnaCountry and also does excellent work in similar areas #ClimateJustice #DesignJustice #FirstNations #Environment
Mollie recently designed a very cool Tee for @sa4forests, poke the SA4Forests crew if you wanna see a pic! :P
They've also been doing excellent work on the SavetheMurry campaign in SA.
Like many designers Mollie is a fan of #Typography #GraphicDesign, Im sure they'll do a better intro than this soon, but you wont see it if you dont follow em.
While 'warrior tech bros' are apparently all the rage, we'll need a different kind of technologist if we want to survive as a species and inhabit a livable world. We'll need #DesignJustice.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7prjkgj62beabigmiti3ftxu/post/3laxgihcsue2c
Dall’organizzazione dei vestiti alla gestione smart del ciclo, dall’esperienza del pasto a quella dell’orto, il percorso nel Laboratorio ha dimostrato come la Ricerca (sugli utenti, sul contesto, sul mercato) sia un passaggio imprescindibile.
https://www.designhub.it/opencometa/laboratorio-cometa-i-concept-finali-della-13-edizione/
Our practice is rooted in the belief that design is a form of activism. We want all the projects we undertake—whether #art, #design or #architecture— to reflect our commitment to #veganism, #socialjustice, and #sustainability. If you or anyone you know needs design services, our team would love to help transform your ideals into reality.
#veganarchitecture #designjustice #ethicaldesign #sustainabledesign #accessibility #vegandesign #vegan #architecture #graphicdesign #branding #art
Also highly recommend checking out the book #DesignJustice by @schock if you're interested in learning more about this topic
This chapter, "From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice," sadly continues to be extremely relevant for tech workers, CS students, and all kinds of design professionals today:
designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ev26fjji...
Directions for Future Work: Fr...
The news from global politics isn’t promising, but we can respond by dedicating ourselves to what we believe in. Costanza Chock’s Design Justice offers essential guidelines. Let’s work towards a fairer, more inclusive future. @schockolatl @mitpress
#GlobalPolitics #DesignJustice #CostanzaChock #SocialJustice #Activism #EquityInDesign #JusticeMatters #InclusiveDesign #SocialChange #BuildBetter #CommunityDriven #EquityAndJustice #SystemicChange #Empowerment #design #book #mitpress
What an impressive set of #tech #design principles Nathan Schneider presents as the framework for his "Governable Spaces" book (https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/):
Aníbal Quijano: "...search for holistic cross-cultural knowledge that welcomes difference and refuses domination;
Arturo Escobar: #pluriversality "...no single design can serve all people... design as an exercise in historical consciousness and multiplicity" and #decoloniality "a form of resistance to being designed from elsewhere."
#DesignJustice: "design must occur through rigorous accountability to the people whose lives it will shape."
... and more!
Goodbye universe - Plurality, evolution, legacy
https://write.as/papers/goodbye-universe-plurality-evolution-legacy
the warbling probably would not be great for tonal languages. the aliens do not practice #DesignJustice #monsterdon
