The Untold Benefits of Ethical Design
summary
Describes building an accountants platform with ethics at the core, trading data hoarding for concrete choices: progressive enhancement and fallbacks so the site still works when JavaScript dies, pages often serving with six requests and faster load, explicit refusal of trackers and no analytics or third‑party scripts, and password checks against the Have I Been Pwned breach database. Gives concrete examples of harmful dark patterns (forced retention flows and urgency nudges) and the practical tradeoffs made for privacy, accessibility, performance, and security.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 2:55A Guiding Philosophy
- 14:54Rethinking the Approach
- 16:25Accessibility Inclusivity Responsibility
- 17:52Web Performance
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