caroline sinders

May 12

Period Tracking, Abortions, and Privacy

Our reproductive freedoms and our devices are at risk — The last few weeks have been incredibly demoralizing, draining, and upsetting — particularly if you care at all about reproductive health and reproductive justice. The tumult kicked off with Politico publishing a leaked Supreme Court majority opinion draft earlier this month to dismantle Roe vs Wade. Within days of the…

Roe V Wade

5 min read

Apr 27

Revisiting the Violation of Pamela Anderson

Hulu’s “Pam and Tommy” re-opens the conversation around non-consensual pornography — I was born in the late 1980s, so a lot of mid-90s news and pop culture I was only peripherally tuned into. I knew who Pamela Anderson was, because of Home Improvement, and Baywatch, but I had never heard of Mötley Crüe or Tommy Lee. Full disclosure: I was nine…

Pamela Anderson

7 min read

Apr 11

Ode to the Office Park

I find office parks fascinating and creepy, and inherently off-putting; I feel the same about highways. Both of them go hand in hand as specific fabulations of capitalism. My interest in office parks and highways is equal parts intrigue and disgust, wrapped in a love of mid-century modern. It started…

Severance

11 min read

Mar 30

What Does a Community Need? It’s Time to Invest in Hybrid

This is our third of three articles pulling from our research on our research on analyzing remote academic events, conferences and communities, looking at the kinds of support and emerging best practices from this space. We, Convocation Research + Design and Simply Secure, were funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation…

Covid 19

9 min read

Mar 15

What Does a Community Need? A Short List of Best Practices

This is our second of three articles pulling from our research on analyzing remote academic events, conferences and communities, looking at the kinds of support and emerging best practices from this space. We, Convocation Research + Design and Simply Secure, were funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this work…

Covid 19

8 min read

Feb 28

What Does a Community Need?

Thinking Through Remote Events During COVID19 for Academic Communities This is our first of three articles pulling from our research on analyzing remote academic events, conferences and communities, looking at the kinds of support and emerging best practices from this space. We, Convocation Research + Design and Simply Secure, were funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this work…

Covid 19

8 min read

Published in Thinking Design

·Oct 6, 2020

Dark Patterns Are Changing How the Law Understands Technology

I’m sure you’ve been here before: you get an email, and it’s a newsletter you don’t remember signing up for, about a product you don’t remember subscribing to updates about. You say, “hmm, well, I’ll just unsubscribe.” You scroll down to the bottom of the email, find the unsubscribe button…

The Future Of Design

6 min read

Dark Patterns Are Changing How the Law Understands Technology

Published in Data & Society: Points

·May 20, 2020

Dark Patterns and Design Policy

UX designers cannot translate tech regulation on their own — By Caroline Sinders, design researcher and artist In 2019, ProPublica reported that Turbo Tax suppressed its free version, tricking people into paying to file their taxes. That same year, Princeton University launched a project that discovered over a thousand different instances of similar “tricks” that were implemented across e-commerce websites…

10 min read

Published in Thinking Design

·Sep 12, 2019

How UX Design Creates Trust

Design researcher, Caroline Sinders, shares her findings around the role that UX design plays in creating trust and how to enforce these principles. — I’m a design researcher studying trust patterns in design. Building on research around trust and our own findings from user interviews and surveys, my team is studying communications and apps that engender or weaponize trust in technology. Trust is complex — it’s contextual, contractual, and cultural — and everyone has…

Design

8 min read

Published in Project on Digital Era Government

·Nov 26, 2018

An Incomplete (but growing) History of Harassment Campaigns since 2003

What I have here is a form of open research, it’s in progress, and still being researched from an ethnographic standpoint. It’s incomplete but I wanted to publish it to show progress. Please check back for frequent updates (per example, I am still adding in things for 2017). If you…

Online Harassment

13 min read

An Incomplete (but growing) History of Harassment Campaigns since 2003