Design for Privacy: Keeping Personal Information Private

Are your designs protecting—or exposing—your users? In Design for Privacy, you’ll uncover how shifting technologies threaten personal data and what that means for your work. This book offers practical guidelines and proven strategies to create experiences that respect and protect people’s privacy, while helping you foster a culture of “privacy by design” in your organization and practice.

Who Should Read This Book

All designers—UX, interface, or product—are waking up to the importance of privacy. But if you’re a strategist, a developer, a producer, or a product manager, online privacy is your job, too. Design for Privacy dissects and explains the ever-changing field of designing for privacy in depth.

Takeaways

In the fluid world of online privacy, this book explains how to address:

• Critical privacy issues, such as cyberstalking and bullying
• How to handle your role as a designer of privacy issues
• Why your business should care about your customers’ privacy
• What it means to handle data responsibly
• How to use careful language with regard to privacy
• Which privacy tools work
• How to create a privacy-by-design scenario in your business
• How AI is impacting online privacy
• How legal, ethical, and moral issues affect privacy
• How to comply with federal and international laws of privacy
• What your rights are where privacy is concerned

Robert Stribley is a user experience design professional with some 25 years of experience. He works with brands both big and small across diverse sectors to provide thoughtful user experience solutions. He worked for many years at both Razorfish and Publicis Sapient, and recently started his own UX consulting company, Technique. Although he has particular experience designing for automotive and financial services, Robert has worked with companies as diverse as the American Red Cross, FreshDirect, JP Morgan, Mercedes-Benz, Travel Channel, and Women’s Wear Daily. He teaches user experience design at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. A chronic student himself, Robert earned degrees in journalism and English education and certificates in political journalism, privacy and data security, and global affairs.

Robert often writes on the topics of UX design, privacy by design, internet culture, and immigration. He writes regularly on Medium, but his writing has also been featured in publications such as Creative Loafing, The Huffington Post, The Observer, Open Global Rights, UX Collective, and UX Magazine. He has spoken or conducted workshops multiple times at SXSW and The Internet Freedom Festival, the Brooklyn Product Design Meetup, as well as Chanel, Design Museum Week, Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE), the University of Maryland and New York University and UX Sketch Camp NYC.

He grew up in Australia, taught English in Pusan, Korea, and feels privileged to have traveled on every continent, even Antarctica, where he went for a brief but energizing swim. He and his wife Amy live in Brooklyn.

You can learn more about Robert at robertstribley.com or find him posting on many of the typical social media haunts.