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View article: Feedback to the EU Commission’s Call for evidence for an impact assessment — Ares(2025)5829481 on the Digital Fairness Act
Feedback to the EU Commission’s Call for evidence for an impact assessment — Ares(2025)5829481 on the Digital Fairness Act Open
In response to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence, we present our inputs organized by topics, drawing from academic knowledge from the fields of Law, Design, and HumanComputer Interaction within Computer Science. Our contributions are a…
View article: Social Media Users Engaging with Matters of Ethical Concern 'By Other Means'
Social Media Users Engaging with Matters of Ethical Concern 'By Other Means' Open
As deceptive design practices proliferate on technology platforms and increasingly threaten user agency and well-being, concerned online communities are using social media platforms to discuss and challenge these unethical practices. In th…
View article: Short-Form Design Cases and Their Use: IJDL Quick Hit Design Cases
Short-Form Design Cases and Their Use: IJDL Quick Hit Design Cases Open
Design cases, originally introduced in 2010 to the field of Instructional/Learning Design and Technology (I/LDT) via the International Journal of Designs for Learning (IJDL) as means of documenting and disseminating design precedent, now a…
View article: Tracing the History and Evolution of Dark Patterns on Twitter from 2010-2021
Tracing the History and Evolution of Dark Patterns on Twitter from 2010-2021 Open
Designers’ use of deceptive and manipulative design practices have become increasingly ubiquitous, impacting users’ ability to make choices that respect their agency and autonomy. These practices have been popularly defined through the ter…
View article: Introduction to the Special Section on Ethics in Learning Design
Introduction to the Special Section on Ethics in Learning Design Open
The International Journal of Designs for Learning (IJDL) is pleased to publish this Special Section on Ethics in Learning Design. This Special Section includes six design cases that highlight different aspects of ethical considerations tha…
View article: Fostering Feminist Community-Led Ethics: Building Tools and Connections
Fostering Feminist Community-Led Ethics: Building Tools and Connections Open
This workshop proposal advocates for a dynamic, community-led approach to ethics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) by integrating principles from feminist HCI and digital civics. Traditional ethics in HCI often overlook interpersonal con…
View article: Legal Trouble?: UX Practitioners' Engagement with Law and Regulation
Legal Trouble?: UX Practitioners' Engagement with Law and Regulation Open
New regulations and legal frameworks are rapidly reshaping the technology landscape, and it is unclear how regulations might impact technology design practices. UX design as a discipline has previously been defined by its complexity and vo…
View article: "My Mother Told Me These Things are Always Fake" - Understanding Teenagers' Experiences with Manipulative Designs
"My Mother Told Me These Things are Always Fake" - Understanding Teenagers' Experiences with Manipulative Designs Open
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View article: Two worlds apart! Closing the gap between regulating EU consent and user studies
Two worlds apart! Closing the gap between regulating EU consent and user studies Open
International audience
View article: An Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and a Pathway for Shared Knowledge-Building
An Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and a Pathway for Shared Knowledge-Building Open
International audience
View article: Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories
Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories Open
Design and technology practitioners are increasingly aware of the ethical impact of their work practices, desiring tools to support their ethical awareness across a range of contexts. In this paper, we report on findings from a series of s…
View article: Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices
Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices Open
Deceptive, manipulative, and coercive practices are deeply embedded in our digital experiences, impacting our ability to make informed choices and undermining our agency and autonomy. These design practices—collectively known as "dark patt…
View article: Anti-Heroes: An Ethics-focused Method for Responsible Designer Intentions
Anti-Heroes: An Ethics-focused Method for Responsible Designer Intentions Open
HCI and design researchers have designed, adopted, and customized a range of ethics-focused methods to inscribe values and support ethical decision making in a design process. In this work-in-progress, we add to this body of resources, con…
View article: Using Schema to Inform Method Design Practices
Using Schema to Inform Method Design Practices Open
There are many different forms of design knowledge that guide and shape a designer's ability to act and realize potential realities. Methods and schemas are examples of design knowledge commonly used by design researchers and designers ali…
View article: Languaging Ethics in Technology Practice
Languaging Ethics in Technology Practice Open
Ethics as embodied by technology practitioners resists simple definition—particularly as it relates to the interplay of identity, organizational, and professional complexity. In this article, we use the linguistic notion of languaging as a…
View article: Getting Trapped in Amazon's "Iliad Flow": A Foundation for the Temporal Analysis of Dark Patterns
Getting Trapped in Amazon's "Iliad Flow": A Foundation for the Temporal Analysis of Dark Patterns Open
Dark patterns are ubiquitous in digital systems, impacting users throughout their journeys on many popular apps and websites. While substantial efforts from the research community in the last five years have led to consolidated taxonomies …
View article: An Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and a Pathway for Shared Knowledge-Building
An Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and a Pathway for Shared Knowledge-Building Open
Deceptive and coercive design practices are increasingly used by companies to extract profit, harvest data, and limit consumer choice. Dark patterns represent the most common contemporary amalgamation of these problematic practices, connec…
View article: The role of design ethics in maintaining students' privacy: A call to action to learning designers in higher education
The role of design ethics in maintaining students' privacy: A call to action to learning designers in higher education Open
Maintaining students' privacy in higher education, an integral aspect of learning design and technology integration, is not only a matter of policy and law but also a matter of design ethics. Similar to faculty educators, learning designer…
View article: Factors That Shape Design Thinking
Factors That Shape Design Thinking Open
A wide range of design literature discusses the role of the studio and its related pedagogy in the development of design thinking. Scholars in a variety of design disciplines pose a number of factors that potentially affect this developmen…
View article: Scaffolding Ethics-Focused Methods for Practice Resonance
Scaffolding Ethics-Focused Methods for Practice Resonance Open
Numerous methods and tools have been proposed to motivate or support ethical awareness in design practice. However, many existing resources are not easily discoverable by practitioners. One reason being that they are framed using language …
View article: Mapping the Landscape of Dark Patterns Scholarship: A Systematic Literature Review
Mapping the Landscape of Dark Patterns Scholarship: A Systematic Literature Review Open
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