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Developers: put high risk features first in your prototyping. Here’s a wish list of the features journalists, activists and human rights defenders will thank you for: Superbloom’s High Risk Feature Guide 2025 #highriskfeatures #ux #safety #security #privacy superbloom.design/learning/blo...

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Please share widely with peers who have similar concerns.

Deadline Friday, August 22.

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Concerned that your work info puts you at risk online? You’re not alone. We’re doing research to strengthen online safety for civil society. Please take 10 minutes to complete our anonymous survey—your perspective could make a real difference!...

Report Launch:Design for Internet Shutdowns in Taiwan. Taxi Drivers, Satellites, and Tech: The Surprising Heroes in Taiwan's Fight Against Internet Shutdowns Superbloom is delighted to launch its report, resources, documentation and open source artworks focussing on the Design for internet shutdowns OSS technology workshops at COSCUP 2023. This report has ...

...It spotlights the creative strategies and surprising heroes keeping Taiwan connected in times of crisis. #InternetShutdown #Taiwan #TechForGood #Superbloom

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🚕🛰️ How can Taiwan fight back against Internet shutdowns? Superbloom’s new report reveals the crucial roles of taxi drivers, satellites, and innovative tech solutions in keeping people connected during Internet shutdowns...

We're really excited to have new FSP @frameshifter.org on board! Find out more in this post.

Thank you so much for joining the skeetgeese crew @georgiabullen.com!

Georgia is the executive director of Superbloom @sprblm.bsky.social, which leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem.

Georgia will be helping facilitate group discussions & unconf.

Superbloom is co-hosting an exciting workshop today in Room 101D @ @rightscon.org: “Empowering Digital Safety: Unveiling the Gendered Data Privacy Framework”. Join Superbloom ED @georgiamoon.bsky.social & Tope Ogundipe, TechSocietal for a dive into improving digital safety for marginalized groups.

If you're at @rightscon.org in Taipei, find us at the @opentechfund.bsky.social UXD Lab booth - Floor 3, TICC! Drop by for a quick chat, ask questions, and grab some Superbloom stickers! Looking forward to meeting you all.

Superbloom Senior Designer, Researcher & Product Manager, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social, is co-facilitating a workshop at @rightscon.org titled "From Bytes to Burdens: Decoding Intergenerational Trauma in Tech," w Ema-Olori Ohr, Andrea Torres + Emily Wright.

Don’t miss it!

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The Superbloom team is at @rightscon.org this week (Feb 24–27) in Taipei! Catch Abhi, Katie, and Georgia at the UXD Lab Booth – we’d love to meet you, answer any questions, and chat about how we're changing the tech landscape to better serve everyone.

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Join Matt Stempeck from FSP: @civictechguide.bsky.social who will be giving an overview of Civic Tech Field Guide tomorrow, January 28 at @ununiversity.bsky.social between 10am and 11am Lisbon time.

For more info and to register: unu.edu/egov/seminar...

ALL DAY UX + Science Hackathon at MIT – Monday, JANUARY 27, 2025! Do you develop software for research purposes and/or are you interested in applying UX principles to transform research tools?

✨ Superbloom received a Sloan grant to improve the user experience of scientific software for STRUDEL and you can find out more about the project here: strudel.science

Together, we’ll explore how to create intuitive tools and interfaces that can make science and your research process more accessible, efficient, and engaging.

This event would be of particular interest to those with some coding experience who are looking to work on a specific web app or piece of software and is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with peers and practitioners while working to improve user experience within the scientific community.

Register via this form: forms.gle/eVt5oeuxx1FU... by this Friday, January 17th. Some travel stipends are available - see form for details.

If so, we have organised an all day UX + science hackathon organized by STRUDEL. This hackathon is set to take place at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA on Monday, January 27th, 2025.

ALL DAY UX + Science Hackathon at MIT – Monday, JANUARY 27, 2025! Do you develop software for research purposes and/or are you interested in applying UX principles to transform research tools?

This brief survey will help us improve MSMs offerings and ensure it meets the needs of those working to protect mobile users from surveillance. If this sounds like you or someone you know, we would like to hear from you.

MSM is designed to increase the transparency of targeted mobile threats and threat actors that conduct digital espionage, supporting defenders and security researchers with resources to expose and counter surveillance.

We’re working with Mobile Surveillance Monitor surveillancemonitor.org, an online database and research tool that provides large-scale threat intelligence data focusing on mobile device and network attacks.

The survey is intended to collect needs and interest regarding mobile surveillance data tools and their pricing.

Are you a researcher studying mobile spyware and/or cellular network threats or preparing digital security training material? Are you looking for tools and data for threat intelligence research? We invite you to participate in a short research survey:

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Civic Tech Wrapped with apologies to Spotify…

What did @civictechguide.bsky.social get up to in 2024? You can find out here in 23 seconds civictech.guide/civic-tech-w...

As part of #GivingTuesday 2024, support and join the movement to design a more equitable future by donating today: sprblm.cc/10yearfund

The next decade demands even more courageous intervention.

With your support, we can:
- Expand our work on inclusive, trustworthy design
- Support more teams building critical, secure and private technology
- Amplify voices traditionally excluded from tech conversations

In a world where technology often marginalizes vulnerable populations, Superbloom works for change. We don't just critique—we transform. By bringing underrepresented voices into critical decision-making spaces, we're reshaping how technology is conceived, designed, and deployed.

Our work touches lives globally:

- Making encryption accessible across diverse cultural contexts
- Protecting activists' communication tools
- Advocating for changes across technology, policy and design practice that center human rights

Why support Superbloom? Ten years ago, we started with a bold vision: technology should work for everyone, not just the privileged few.