# Respecting Users

published on 07.02.2018

Reading “Respect always comes first” about applying a focus on security and ethics when designing experiences, makes me happy. It’s great to see that more people think about things like this and care about the same ideas.

I always liked the idea of blog-post-replies, hence this post in reply to Vitaly’s article . (We should do these things more often again ;))

I feel the same way as many people do. You do something and you are not sure if you are doing the right thing.

Reading “ Respect always comes first ” about applying a focus on security and ethics when designing experiences, makes me happy.
Doing things in a better, more respective way and putting our users interests first can never be wrong and that’s why we follow in this approach with Colloq , too.

From the article:

> Now, what if we tried something else? Here’s a start-up idea: If you want to “disrupt” anything, bring the focus to privacy, inclusivity, and ethics of your product.

> But Where Would We Even Start?

## Everyone wants to create better experiences, but what are you willing to do for it?

First of all, you’ll have to be in the boat to want to improve something. really need to. This is not quite the current trend, since I see many projects deciding to throw everything on it to then later remove things to improve and optimise.

Less data: Most projects start collecting countless amounts of data from the get go.

Less tracking and better privacy: Consider which third-party plugins or apps you need to use.

Better security: What is it that you do to make sure your users and their data is safe? freely available leaked password databases and use it on your site. Do you think about Cross-Site Request Forgery ?

These are only a few examples and there are many more ways to better respect your users and improve their experience. In turn these considerations can make your life as a developer or product owner more secure and less painful as well.

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Hello! I'm Holger Bartel , a designer and developer based in Hong Kong. I run the design studio uforepublic and occasionally speak at conferences and give workshops. If you would like to chat, have comments or simply like what I do, contact me or connect on Mastodon .