# Prosocial design resources **URL:** \ **Category:** SX solution development\ **Tags:** sx, list\ **Created:** [June 29, 2025, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/prosocial-design-resources/659 "2025-06-29T10:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/prosocial-design-resources/659/1 "2025-06-29T10:00:41Z")
## [Council on Technology and Social Cohesion](https://techandsocialcohesion.org/) _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](https://techandsocialcohesion.substack.com/p/from-harm-to-health)** > > The new Blueprint for Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out systems that incentivize prosocial design—and goes beyond just removing harm. A very interesting 36-page [PDF Report](https://techandsocialcohesion.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Blueprint-on-Prosocial-Tech-Design-Governance-May-2025.pdf).. ![Snapshot of the table of contents of the PDF report](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/2X/2/24d0f6ca6e1a34d162f318b02d7b175eda49f0e0.png) ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/prosocial-design-resources/659/2 "2025-06-29T10:10:24Z")
## [Prosocial Design Network](https://www.prosocialdesign.org/) _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](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3aca61b31e56b13e5e7ac656d798588dadaa95f3.png) Also linked from [Wiki for SX Anti-pattern: Comment-first](https://discuss.coding.social/t/wiki-for-sx-anti-pattern-comment-first/614) (ref to [‘delayed commenting’](https://www.prosocialdesign.org/library/delay-by-default-posting) pattern). ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/prosocial-design-resources/659/3 "2025-07-07T17:56:23Z")
## [Decent patterns](https://decentpatterns.com/): 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](https://decentpatterns.com/library), along with a glossary of terms and a [research report](https://decentpatterns.com/report) detailing the needs and gaps we see in the current ecosystem._ Currently they have the following UX designs in their pattern library: - [Address](https://decentpatterns.com/library/address/) - [Age Indicator](https://decentpatterns.com/library/age-indicator/) - [Cautious Optimism](https://decentpatterns.com/library/cautious-optimism/) - [Conditional File Sharing](https://decentpatterns.com/library/conditional-file-sharing/) - [Content Curators](https://decentpatterns.com/library/content-curators/) - [Discovery Server](https://decentpatterns.com/library/discovery-server/) - [Disposable Identity](https://decentpatterns.com/library/disposable-identity/) - [Host Roulette](https://decentpatterns.com/library/host-roulette/) - [Network Health Indicator](https://decentpatterns.com/library/network-health-indicator/) - [Paper Keys](https://decentpatterns.com/library/paper-keys/) - [Persistent Identity](https://decentpatterns.com/library/persistent-identity/) - [Physical Beacon](https://decentpatterns.com/library/physical-beacon/) - [Prioritize Backup](https://decentpatterns.com/library/prioritize-backup/) - [Protocol Agnosticism](https://decentpatterns.com/library/protocol-agnosticism/) - [QR Code Verification](https://decentpatterns.com/library/QR-code-verification/) - [Secret Sharing](https://decentpatterns.com/library/secret-sharing/) - [Social Radius Slider](https://decentpatterns.com/library/social-radius-slider/) - [Standards Marker](https://decentpatterns.com/library/standards-marker/) - [Tombstones](https://decentpatterns.com/library/tombstones/) - [Trackers](https://decentpatterns.com/library/trackers/) - [Village or City](https://decentpatterns.com/library/village-or-city/) - [Visual Hash](https://decentpatterns.com/library/visual-hash/) - [Whisper Links](https://decentpatterns.com/library/whisper-links/) * * * Involved with this project is [Eileen Wagner](https://bumble.blue/) ([@bumbleblue@chaos.social](https://chaos.social/@bumbleblue)), 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: [![](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/2X/0/05dec77bde5e9e8c893415b871fee0bafb946eea.jpeg "Eileen Wagner - The UX of Local First") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKOwTHQ2Jzc)