One thing coronavirus has exposed more broadly is the importance of (good) ethics in tech and design. There have been people raising the alarm about […]
Designing for Financial Behavior: FxD 2018 Panel Recap
It’s easy for financial experts to say what people should do to achieve financial well-being. We can rattle off rules of thumb like: contribute enough to your […]
Believing In Behavior Change Means Believing People Can Change
I suppose this post is politically motivated, although I’ll try to leave the actual politics out so as to not obscure my point by putting […]
Moral Issues in Designing for Behavior Change
The big thing on my mind right now is preparing for my presentation at SXSW next Saturday. My J&J colleague and pal Raphaela O’Day and […]
So, Does Facebook Influence Users or Not? (Yes, It Does)
Two days after the election, Mark Zuckerberg said the following at a meeting in California: “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, […]
How Much Can We Personalize Job Rewards Without Being Unfair?
I recently read the book The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins. It was recommended to […]
Knocked to the Bottom of the Pyramid
I had big plans this week. I was going to log some major running miles, get ahead of my blog posting, run all manner of errands, […]
When Is a Reward Coercion? The Case of Workplace Wellness Programs
Given my former line of business working on digital wellness programs for employees and health plan members, I’ve tended to have a positive spin on […]
Facebook announces new research guidelines
Three months after inciting the ire of researchers and users with their stealth emotional manipulation study, Facebook has announced a revised research policy. The new […]
Facebook’s Informed Consent Problem
You’ve undoubtedly heard by now about Facebook’s large scale emotion manipulation study, conducted on their site users. The study, published in the Proceedings of the […]