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Design for Privacy

By Robert Stribley

To be published: 2025

Living and working online means grappling with the impact of a dizzying array of online privacy issues. Service providers offer opaque explanations for why they need our data and what they’re doing with it. Many deploy deceptive experiences to access and handle or even sell our personal data. What can we do as designers to understand these issues, address them with our stakeholders, and avoid them during the design process, so we can minimize their impact upon users?

Design for Privacy will advocate for the practice of “privacy by design” and examine specific and often alarming examples of these issues. You’ll learn the four “pillars” for privacy-centered experience design and best practices, with both good and bad examples to visualize problems along the way, so you can design more confidently with privacy in mind. And you’ll learn to cultivate a culture which enables privacy by design

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Living and working online means grappling with the impact of a dizzying array of online privacy issues. Service providers offer opaque explanations for why they need our data and what they’re doing with it. Many deploy deceptive experiences to access and handle or even sell our personal data. What can we do as designers to understand these issues, address them with our stakeholders, and avoid them during the design process, so we can minimize their impact upon users?

Design for Privacy will advocate for the practice of “privacy by design” and examine specific and often alarming examples of these issues. You’ll learn the four “pillars” for privacy-centered experience design and best practices, with both good and bad examples to visualize problems along the way, so you can design more confidently with privacy in mind. And you’ll learn to cultivate a culture which enables privacy by design

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Growing Need
Chapter 2: Our Role as Designers
Chapter 3: Why Should Business Care?
Chapter 4: The Evolving Impact of Privacy Policy
Chapter 5: Handle Data Responsibly
Chapter 6: Avoid Deception Patterns
Chapter 7: Use Language With Care
Chapter 8: Provide Tools for Enabling Privacy
Chapter 9: A Foundation–Cultivating a Culture for Privacy by Design
Chapter 10: Navigating Two Privacy Scenarios
Chapter 11: AI and Privacy
Chapter 12: Working on Privacy–Privacy as a Product