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Possible Futures

Possible Futures is a newsletter cataloging movement towards ethics, social responsibility and systemic change in tech, design and culture.

It's put together by Clayton and Colombene. Read more.

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Consentful Tech

The principles of consentful tech: freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific.

The principles of consent should be applied to the digital space.

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Privacy is UX

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Designers play a key role in determining how privacy-respecting a project is.

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Interview with PenPot CEO Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz on Open-Source Design and Ethical Funding

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Clayton interviews Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz on Penpot's aspirations to make designers first-class citizens in the open source world and how they incubate and ethically fund open source projects.
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Open Source Design & Build & Cut & Sew

WikiHouse and Jumpsuit demonstrate new ways of working in the traditional design fields of architecture and fashion.

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Open Source Design Resources

Coming out of a live event in Berlin, Germany called DWebDesign #3, this post is a great introduction and link collection for digital designers interested in learning more about open source.

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Libre Graphics

Libre Graphics Club, Libre Graphics Meeting, and Libre Graphics Magazine are some resources, present and past, for designers looking to explore open source tools.

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