Prosocial design resources

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Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

We envision a world where tech innovators and peacebuilders design technology that strengthens social bonds and enables collaborative problem-solving on pressing policy issues. We are catalyzing a robust, interconnected field of technology for social cohesion. Technology can help to save lives and protect human dignity, especially in high-risk communities.

Our focus isn’t just on mitigating digital harms but addressing their root cause: the way technologies are designed and deployed. Our approach is proactive, emphasizing design-centric solutions that build social cohesion. We aim for prosocial technologies to be desirable, affordable and actionable.

On Jun 6 2025 they published:

From Harm to Health

A very interesting 36-page PDF Report…

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Prosocial Design Network

The Prosocial Design Network connects research to practice toward a world in which online spaces are healthy, productive, respect human dignity, and improve society. We define prosocial design as the set of design patterns, features and processes which foster healthy interactions between individuals and which create the conditions for those interactions to thrive by ensuring individuals’ safety, wellbeing and dignity.

Laid out as a pattern library there are currently 45 prosocial patterns that are being not only documented, but also monitored and validated for their effectiveness…

Also linked from Wiki for SX Anti-pattern: Comment-first (ref to ‘delayed commenting’ pattern).