How to Design the Privacy Experience Users Deserve
Designers must take up the banner of designing a better, more delightful privacy experience
Have you ever wondered why MREs aren’t a bigger industry?
Of course you haven’t. Because who would choose to eat an MRE over eating a nice cooked steak, a fresh summer salad, or even a good ole hamburger from McDonald’s?
For those of you who are unacquainted with an MRE, it’s a type of meal that stands for “Meals Ready-to-Eat.” They are prepackaged, non-freeze-dried meals with a five-year shelf life that don’t become spoiled even in freezing or extremely hot temperatures. They are known for their light packaging and their ability to provide 1,200 calories in a single meal, and they’re a go-to meal for military forces in the field. They also happen to be a great representation of everything that’s wrong with the current approach to privacy design.
I first came into contact with MREs sometime in elementary or middle school, in Huntsville, Alabama. The interesting thing about this particular city was that we lived in the shadow of both NASA and a gigantic military base, Redstone Federal Arsenal. Both entities had such a big presence in town that it’s safe to say that at least half of my friends’ parents worked at one of those two…
