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Articles by Ame Elliott
We moved to Europe because Silicon Valley is dead. You should too.
It is no secret that American culture is currently a bit of a train wreck. From election interference to the reversal of reproductive rights to unresolved racial reckoning — not to speak of the ever-increasing menace of gun violence — the US has become a difficult place to defend. In the past, the monetary upside of life in the tech industry in Silicon Valley was enough for most people to wave it all away.
Using Personas in Open-Source Projects
Design is all about making decisions. From a rebrand to a feature specification, from a new product to a new logo, every design change presents you with a fresh set of decisions. In open-source software, we often start out with the admirable goal of basing these decisions on the needs and preferences of our community.
UX for security: Why privacy matters
Ame Elliott is design director for Simply Secure, where she is a passionate advocate for bringing design to usable security. She joined Simply Secure after eight years at IDEO San Francisco, leading design research and delivering human-centered tech strategy projects for Fortune 500 clients such as Acer, Ericsson, and Samsung.
Chatbots, UX, and Privacy
Chatbots, or conversational programs that simulate interactive human speech patterns, are a hot topic in UX right now. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently claimed that “bots are the new apps”, and that they are the interface of the future for tasks like ordering food and booking transportation. In San Francisco, tech elites use a multitude of oft-parodied services like Wag to find dog walkers and Rinse to have their laundry done.
Mind The Gap Between Mobile Apps
Users of the Facebook iPhone app were recently surprised by a new feature offering to “Add the last link you copied?” into a status update. Many people did not expect to see a complete URL that they had put onto the clipboard from another app, without explicitly involving Facebook. Christian Frichot discusses iOS security concerns with this feature, but I also consider this to be a UX design failure. Copying a link in Safari (left) makes it appear in Facebook (right).
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