Ame Elliott

User experience design to re-imagine privacy, security, transparency, and ethics.

Design can change the world.

List of Academic Papers.

WHITE PAPERS/TECH REPORTS

From Policy to Pixels: Strategic UX Design and User Support for GDPR Implementation, Ame Elliott and Susan Kennedy, November 2023.

Practitioner Reflections on a Trustmark for IoT: From Consumer Choice to Communal Action, Ame Elliott, December 2022.

The Limits to Digital Consent: Understanding the Risks of Ethical Consent and Data Collection for Underrepresented Communities, New Design Congress and Simply Secure, October 2021.   

On Trust and Transparency, Simply Secure, June 2019.

Straight Talk: New Yorkers on Mobile Messaging and Implications for Privacy, Ame Elliott and Sara Sinclair Brody, May 2016.

FEATURED SIMPLY SECURE/SUPERBLOOM Blog Posts

Requiem for Cyberspace and the Next Theory of Change for IoT, December 2023.

Together Against Deceptive Design, June 2023.

All Aboard: Getting Mainstream Users Up and Running on Decentralized Systems, August 2022.

Keeping Everyone Safe: Quick, User-Oriented Problem-Solving with Mapeo, February 2022.

Sustaining Values-Driven Software by Attracting New Users, November 2021.

Blink and You'll Miss It: Notifications in an AI World, Oct. 2016.

Respecting Participants in Privacy-Related User Studies, July 2016.

ChatBots, UX, and Privacy, May 2016.

Comfortable UX, Not Just Open APIs, April 2016.

ARCHIVED SIMPLY SECURE/SUPERBLOOM Blog Posts

Retail Apps and Data Collection, July 2017.

Lessons from Architecture School for IoT Security, July 2017

Security is a "Design in Tech" Trend, March 2017.

Professional Knowledge and IoT, March 2017.

Essential Non-Technical Skills for Working in Security, Dec. 2016.

Blink and You'll Miss It: Notifications in an AI World, Oct. 2016.

What '90s London Raves Can Teach Us About InfoSec, Sept. 2016

Learning from Drones, Aug. 2016.

Respecting Participants in Privacy-Related User Studies, July 2016.

Illustrated Quick-Start Intro to Wireframing, July 2016.

Safeguarding Research Participants with a Bill of Rights, June 2016

Model Release: Respectfully Sharing Stories, June 2016

Selecting Research Participants for Privacy and Beyond, June 2016.

How to Name Your App, May 2016

ChatBots, UX, and Privacy, May 2016

Design Matters: 2016 Design in Tech Report, April 2016.

Comfortable UX, Not Just Open APIs, April 2016.

How UX Includes or Excludes, April 2016

Notes from the Internet Freedom Festival, March 2016.

Awkward! QR Scanning + LinkedIn Spam, Feb. 2016.

Notes on the O'Reilly Design Conference, Jan. 2016.

How to Sketch Storyboards in 10 Minutes, Jan. 2016.

Straight Talk: New Yorkers on Privacy, Dec. 2015.

Why Open-Source Projects Need Style Guides, Nov. 2015.

Mind the Gap Between Mobile Apps, Oct. 2015.

Underexposed: Building a Movement for Secure UX, Oct. 2015.

Ninjas + Hemingway: Writing for UIs, Oct. 2015.

Nostalgia, Trust, and Brand Guidelines, Sept. 2015.

Design Thinking, Aug. 2015.

Empathy in the Real World, Aug. 2015

Kids' Online Privacy: SOUPS Keynote, July 2015.

Behind the Scenes: Emerging Conversations from Slack, July 2015.

Closing the Participation Gap: HotPETS Presentation Summary, July 2015.

Lessons from Architecture School Part III, July 2015.

Lessons from Architecture School Part II, June 2015.

Lessons from Architecture School Part I, June 2015.

Making the Abstract Experiential, May 2015.

Hello, I'm Ame, May 2015.