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Legal Trouble?: UX Practitioners’ Engagement with Law and Regulation

Author
Colin M. Gray, Ritika Gairola, Nayah Boucaud, Maliha Hashmi, S. Chivukula, Ambika R Menon, Jacob Duane
Date
1 Jul 2024
Publisher
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Focus
Design Practice
Category
Academic Scholar

This work-in-progress paper presents three short case studies of UX practitioners with differing levels of educational and professional experience that worked in different contexts of design practice and identifies how participants understood legal dimensions of their work and engaged with legal and regulatory issues as part of their design activity.

New regulations and legal frameworks are rapidly reshaping the technology landscape, and it is unclear how regulations might impact technology design practices. UX design as a discipline has previously been defined by its complexity and volatility, utilizing multiple forms of knowledge that are often in tension or conflict. In this work-in-progress paper, we ask how UX practitioners address legal and regulatory knowledge as part of their everyday work practices. We present three short case studies of UX practitioners with differing levels of educational and professional experience that worked in different contexts of design practice.