Responsible
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The Goal
I define responsible innovation as building with intention: prioritizing safety, equity, privacy, and accessibility from the start. It's important to anticipate the unintended consequences of your product decisions, mitigate harm as much as possible, and designing for the impacts of scale.
Responsible innovation challenges design practitioners to ask: Who might be excluded? What could go wrong? It’s not about slowing progress, it’s about deepening it. By embedding ethics into the design process, we create products that don’t just work, but work for everyone.
What I do
01
Protect people from bad actors
01
Protect people from bad actors
I lead design teams that work on Privacy, User Safety, Security and more in order to protect people from bad actors. I am highly experienced with working with global, US, and state regulators to ensure public policy is being followed correctly – but I also believe in going above and beyond that policy to understand the full scope of how to keep people safe online and offline.
Privacy
User Safety
Security
Compliance
01
Protect people from bad actors
I lead design teams that work on Privacy, User Safety, Security and more in order to protect people from bad actors. I am highly experienced with working with global, US, and state regulators to ensure public policy is being followed correctly – but I also believe in going above and beyond that policy to understand the full scope of how to keep people safe online and offline.
Privacy
User Safety
Security
Compliance
02
Protect people from unintended consequences
02
Protect people from unintended consequences
Sometimes people can be harmed by unintended consequences inflected by companies. That's why I also lead teams in Integrity and Human Rights, and engage in the creation and management of product policy. It's important for companies to invest in internal guardrails and ways to minimize developing with blind spots.
Integrity
Product Policy
Human Rights
02
Protect people from unintended consequences
Sometimes people can be harmed by unintended consequences inflected by companies. That's why I also lead teams in Integrity and Human Rights, and engage in the creation and management of product policy. It's important for companies to invest in internal guardrails and ways to minimize developing with blind spots.
Integrity
Product Policy
Human Rights
03
Add social value
03
Add social value
I believe tech companies have a social responsibility to reflect the diversity and needs of their users, and to add social value. Much of this work involves changing how we do UX research and product design to be more participatory, and to think about how we can go above and beyond basic accessibility requirements in order to offer additional capabilities.
Product Equity
Co-Design
Accessibility
03
Add social value
I believe tech companies have a social responsibility to reflect the diversity and needs of their users, and to add social value. Much of this work involves changing how we do UX research and product design to be more participatory, and to think about how we can go above and beyond basic accessibility requirements in order to offer additional capabilities.
Product Equity
Co-Design
Accessibility
04
Ensure that emerging technology is fair and safe
04
Ensure that emerging technology is fair and safe
I formerly worked at Meta on Responsible AI and Responsible Innovation & Ethics where I contributed to a lot of the foundational guardrails and controls that help AI innovation move forward in a responsible way.
Although Responsible AI is largely thought of as an engineering and research-led effort, designers have a great deal of responsibility to understand the effects of AI on the systems we design and how to mitigate their risks to end users.
Responsible AI
Responsible Innovation
Governance
04
Ensure that emerging technology is fair and safe
I formerly worked at Meta on Responsible AI and Responsible Innovation & Ethics where I contributed to a lot of the foundational guardrails and controls that help AI innovation move forward in a responsible way.
Although Responsible AI is largely thought of as an engineering and research-led effort, designers have a great deal of responsibility to understand the effects of AI on the systems we design and how to mitigate their risks to end users.
Responsible AI
Responsible Innovation
Governance
05
Train teams and companies how to build more responsibly
05
Train teams and companies how to build more responsibly
I work with companies of all sizes – ranging from small startups and non-profits to large tech companies – to surface potential risks and harms, analyze the impact of complex ethical dilemmas, and design ways to mitigate risk.
I'm available to facilitate Product Red Teaming and Design Mitigation workshops.
Red Teaming
Adversarial Design Thinking
Ethics Analysis
Risk Mitigation Design
05
Train teams and companies how to build more responsibly
I work with companies of all sizes – ranging from small startups and non-profits to large tech companies – to surface potential risks and harms, analyze the impact of complex ethical dilemmas, and design ways to mitigate risk.
I'm available to facilitate Product Red Teaming and Design Mitigation workshops.
Red Teaming
Adversarial Design Thinking
Ethics Analysis
Risk Mitigation Design
06
Train the next generation of designers how to be advocates for responsible innovation
06
Train the next generation of designers how to be advocates for responsible innovation
As a Lecturer at the University of Washington, I incorporate responsible innovation and ethics into my curriculum and guide design students how to navigate difficult ethical dilemmas. I regularly speak about Trust & Safety topics at in-person and online conferences, and I offer mentorship services to individual designers who are looking to grow their skills in the Trust & Safety space.
University Lecturing
Conference Speaking
Mentorship
Writing & Media
06
Train the next generation of designers how to be advocates for responsible innovation
As a Lecturer at the University of Washington, I incorporate responsible innovation and ethics into my curriculum and guide design students how to navigate difficult ethical dilemmas. I regularly speak about Trust & Safety topics at in-person and online conferences, and I offer mentorship services to individual designers who are looking to grow their skills in the Trust & Safety space.
University Lecturing
Conference Speaking
Mentorship
Writing & Media
WRITING &
MEDIA
Feb.2025
Why is Responsible Innovation so difficult?
Feb.2025
Why is Responsible Innovation so difficult?
Jan.2025
How designers can influence product policy
Jan.2025
How designers can influence product policy
Dec.2024
Using data science to forecast unintended consequences
Dec.2024
Using data science to forecast unintended consequences
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