"Privacy by design" is an approach used to embed privacy protections into products during design, rather than retroactively. We combine privacy by design with critical, speculative, and value-centered design approaches to elicit reflections on explore how relevant social values may be discussed early in product development. We present a case study using a design workbook of speculative design fictions as a values elicitation tool. Originally used as a reflective tool among a research group, we transformed the workbook into artifacts to share as values elicitation tools in interviews with graduate students training as future technology professionals. We discuss how these design artifacts surface contextual, socially-oriented understandings of privacy, and their potential utility in relationship to other values levers.

Publications
Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Ellen Van Wyk, James Pierce and John Chuang (2017). “Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks.” In Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (CSCW Online First). 1, 2, Article 111 (November 2017), 27 pages. ACM Press.
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Project Team
Richmond Wong (project lead), Deirdre Mulligan, Ellen Van Wyk (lead designer), James Pierce, John Chuang