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Alex Schmidt

Alex Schmidt is a UX strategist and researcher. As an award-winning journalist, her work has been published on/in NPR, Marketplace, The Los Angeles Times, and NewYorker.com, among other outlets. She is based currently in New York City, but is originally (and in the future) of Los Angeles.

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Privacy is UX

Alex Schmidt argues that in a world full of security breaches, snooping, and third-party data aggregators, you should know where your users’ data goes. In this article, she explains why it’s time we make privacy part of our product design process—and helps us figure out how to build it into our requirements and skillsets.