Transparency

User trust is key to data-driven business. When people use online data-driven services they interact with their data in sometimes complex ways. For them to have trust in this experience, it's important that they understand it.

Companies share a challenge with regulators and policymakers in finding appropriate ways to communicate to people how their data is used in a way that doesn't disrupt their experience. They are looking for ways that clarify, not muddle, their understanding of how their data is used in context, so that they can make meaningful and well-informed choices.

Using the guidelines offered by the GDPR, design an innovative user interface for your service that gives people contextual transparency about the use, storage and processing of their personal data through interactions within the app, while also providing a great user experience.

We welcomed experts from a variety of disciplines, including the Dublin design community as well as industry, public bodies and data protection regulators, law firms, not-for-profits and academics.

Below is an outline of the stages and exercises that took place at this Design Jam. For everything that you need to facilitate your own workshop, please follow the links to the relevant part of our toolkit.

Discover

On the morning of the Jam, participants were welcomed and Introduced to Design Jamming. They then took part in discovery exercises around stations, including Understand users to explore the role of personas in building empathy as well as Deconstruct transparency and Design with words.

Participants were addressed by subject matter experts, including presentations from the Irish Data Protection Commission on transparency requirements, Chris Downs from Normally on designing for data and collaboration, and Assistant Professor Florian Schaub from the University of Michigan on designing effective privacy notices and controls.

All participants then worked to Identify opportunities by writing How Might We's on Post-Its during these presentations, and these notes were collected by the facilitation team who placed them on the wall of the day, grouping them into key thematic areas. Some of the unique groupings of questions that emerged from this Design Jam included ideas on how might we:

• layer information visually, clearly and concisely?
• explore other senses (motion, gesture, sound)?
• show purpose, use and context?
• build trust, reducing fear and risks?
• be human, enabling user control?
• define transparency?

Ideate & Prototype

After lunch, the wall of the day was reviewed before moving into the Team kickoff. The facilitators Set brainstorming rules and introduced the teams to Sketching ideas.

Each multidisciplinary team focussed on imagining transparency-focussed design patterns for different areas of fictional mobile apps:

1. Kin - Social Media Network - personal sharing
2. MyMed - Government Medical Services - personal health info
3. Fanfare - Music - personal taste and preferences
4. Chariot - Car Sharing - location sharing and tracking travel
5. Oink - Banking - sensitive personal data and security issues
6. Munchbox - Food Delivery - location sharing

Teams moved from sketching ideas and receiving Feedback from other teams to Building digital prototypes of a single idea. Each team Ceated a pitch, telling the story of their design patterns back to the whole group and receiving Feedback from experts at the end of the day.