Prosocial design resources

Social experience design 🎭 SX methodology
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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:

A very interesting 36-page PDF Report…

Snapshot of the table of contents of the 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…

Snapshot of the first row of patterns in the library
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Also linked from Wiki for SX Anti-pattern: Comment-first (ref to ‘delayed commenting’ pattern).

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Decent patterns: Decentralization, off the shelf

The mission of Decentralization Off The Shelf (or “DOTS”) is to develop UX components and tools that developers and designers can use to build better user-facing applications backed by decentralized architectures, off the shelf. Decent Patterns is a design project supporting practitioners in decentralization through interface, content, and service design. Our main resource is a library of tried-and-tested design patterns, along with a glossary of terms and a research report detailing the needs and gaps we see in the current ecosystem.

Currently they have the following UX designs in their pattern library:

Involved with this project is Eileen Wagner (@bumbleblue@chaos.social), who also does work for Ink & Switch as a UX engineer, where they developed the “Fullscreen” collaborative whiteboard prototype, and recently gave this local-first talk: