Think about the last time you gave your consent. Who did you give it to? Why? How did it make you feel? In a growing digital and data age, many consent experiences are easier to bypass than examine. There's room for more imagination. To start, let's stop to consider what people want to share.

Close your eyes and repeat after me, "Minimum Viable Data". Let that sink in for a moment. 🤔The typical school of thought around 'big data' is—'collect everything and we'll figure it out later'. The Clean Insights approach is different. It encourages you to be precise in determining which data you need and what to measure. This activity will warm up your brain on this approach.

In light of launching the Clean Insights Symposium Extraordinaire this month, we are warming up our minds on data! Check out this incredible project by Giorgia and Stefanie. For one year, they sent postcards back and forth. Each with a data set from their week. It became a year long ‘slow data’ transmission. It’s incredible! Today, we’re encouraging you to try such a feat for yourself!

Collaborative co-design methods have been part of our design process since the beginning. However as the world changes and health and finance limit travel, finding interesting, engaging and sustainable approaches to co-design are paramount. As many know, solutions to problems are more successful, relevant and adoptable, if the right people are involved in the process. This means getting the end users and vital stakeholders involved from the start.

A clone can be hard to recognize. It often looks and functions like anything else you would use. In the world of open source apps, clones are copies of apps published by a source other than the original author. While they may not be inherently bad, clones create many challenges and insecurities for the open source community.

I put it on Google Play and the Apple Store and promote it, right? Yes, but there's more to do. As an outcome of the 'Clones' project, we've learned that there are a vast set of use cases for downloading apps. We hope these steps are useful.

In a world full of choice and clones, it can be difficult to know if what you’re getting is the real thing. The landscape for getting and downloading apps is complex. Context and ease play a big role in how and where people get apps. Due to the unique cultural and digital climate in countries, people want what is convenient and easy. We are very casual about getting apps and don’t think much about the source of our security.

To compliment the in-depth testing our friends at Accessibility Lab provide, we wanted to understand the approachability KeePassXC. In addition, we wanted to measure how easy or difficult it was for people to set it up. We tested with a variety of users ranging in age and tech savviness.