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Trustworthy Software Design

A friend from LinkedIn, Stephanie Lucas, has recently left that company to pursue her passion as an evangelist for content design and UI practices which show respect for the end users and foster trust.

She’s got some great insights from a varied career including both direct UI and content/graphical design through roles as teaching those values and skills across teams as a Trust Specialist, and it’s all coming out at the perfect time for me to keep them in mind as I work through my current projects.

The topics include but are not limited to the ways in which attention to accessibility usually pays off for all users, focusing on the user’s subjective long term experience rather than simply ‘optimizing’ to run the user down a certain path or to a certain choice, and the ways in which today’s accelerated development schedules (whether because of tools such as improved AI or business choices) can sometimes put pressure on our ability to fully consider design choices before the product reaches the user.

At present (Jun 2025) the articles are being published on LinkedIn. Again, worth a follow!



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The focus of my work is writing software tools in support of engineering and financial analysis plus taking care of the source and results data for quality and documentation purposes. Most of my professional time has been spent in the engineering, particularly naval architecture, and finance sectors. Many side tasks which aren’t strictly central to my deliverables crop up and must be dealt with. These posts are notes on the little side tours and cul-de-sacs along the way.

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