36 min
Bethany Sonefeld Envisions a Healthy, Balanced Tech World The Healthier Tech Podcast
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In today’s episode, Bethany joins us to discuss her latest project, Create with Conscience. We talk about the balance between technology and a healthy lifestyle, the difficulties end-users face when trying to build that balance, and how creators can use Create with Conscience to build ethical technological systems. Bethany shares the three principles of Create with Conscience that are used to help create healthier technology, some of the ways you can start to create healthy boundaries and values in your tech design, and how businesses as a whole might be incentivized to implement these ethical changes to their design. We also get into the design of modern tech products, how they are designed to manipulate and control the end-users' time, and how the battle for attention from all sorts of tech products and design patterns has contributed to the attention crisis in the modern world.
In this episode you will hear:
What is Create with Conscience? How creators can use Create with Conscience Principles for creating healthier technology What makes for healthy boundaries Giving control back to the users Tackling the addictive power of modern tech products The attention crisis of modern society What are the business incentives for these changes?
Bethany is a designer that specializes in systems thinking, detail-oriented design, and scalable enterprise solutions. Her past roles include leading IBM's Carbon Design System and building a team for Cloudflare's Zero-Trust Product.
Currently, Bethany is working as a Design Manager at Duo Security while also building Create with Conscience, a space dedicated to educating and committing to designing healthier technology.
Connect with Bethany Sonefeld:
Website: createwithconscience.com
Email: bsonefeld@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bethany-sonefeld
Twitter: twitter.com/bsonefeld
Connect with R Blank and Stephanie Warner:
For more Healthier Tech Podcast episodes, and to download our Healthier Tech Quick Start Guide, visit https://HealthierTech.co and follow https://instagram.com/healthiertech
Additional Links:
Shield Your Body website: https://ShieldYourBody.com Shield Your Body Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/shieldyourbody Host R Blank on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rblank9/ Shield Your Body on Instagram: https://instagram.com/shieldyourbody
In today’s episode, Bethany joins us to discuss her latest project, Create with Conscience. We talk about the balance between technology and a healthy lifestyle, the difficulties end-users face when trying to build that balance, and how creators can use Create with Conscience to build ethical technological systems. Bethany shares the three principles of Create with Conscience that are used to help create healthier technology, some of the ways you can start to create healthy boundaries and values in your tech design, and how businesses as a whole might be incentivized to implement these ethical changes to their design. We also get into the design of modern tech products, how they are designed to manipulate and control the end-users' time, and how the battle for attention from all sorts of tech products and design patterns has contributed to the attention crisis in the modern world.
In this episode you will hear:
What is Create with Conscience? How creators can use Create with Conscience Principles for creating healthier technology What makes for healthy boundaries Giving control back to the users Tackling the addictive power of modern tech products The attention crisis of modern society What are the business incentives for these changes?
Bethany is a designer that specializes in systems thinking, detail-oriented design, and scalable enterprise solutions. Her past roles include leading IBM's Carbon Design System and building a team for Cloudflare's Zero-Trust Product.
Currently, Bethany is working as a Design Manager at Duo Security while also building Create with Conscience, a space dedicated to educating and committing to designing healthier technology.
Connect with Bethany Sonefeld:
Website: createwithconscience.com
Email: bsonefeld@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bethany-sonefeld
Twitter: twitter.com/bsonefeld
Connect with R Blank and Stephanie Warner:
For more Healthier Tech Podcast episodes, and to download our Healthier Tech Quick Start Guide, visit https://HealthierTech.co and follow https://instagram.com/healthiertech
Additional Links:
Shield Your Body website: https://ShieldYourBody.com Shield Your Body Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/shieldyourbody Host R Blank on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rblank9/ Shield Your Body on Instagram: https://instagram.com/shieldyourbody
36 min