Ame Elliott
Senior Fellow * she/her
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Ame (sounds like “Amy”) Elliott is a designer, researcher, and strategist working at the intersection of people x data x environments. A coach for the Prototype Fund since 2017, she enjoys helping teams prioritize and move items onto a “To Don’t” List and focus their limited resources in high-impact ways. After many years of working in Silicon Valley, she believes that some elements of Big Tech (e.g. UX patterns) can be directly applied to public-interest tech projects. Some aspects (e.g. surveillance capitalism) are so toxic they must be rejected. And there is a middle area of practices that need to be adapted and re-imagined to fit the needs of values-driven projects.
Ame is interested in system change and capacity building for transformation. Her particular passions are fighting climate change, urban design/cities, and imagining the future of work. Ame’s research explores how to include stakeholders with different backgrounds in discussion of responsible AI and data governance and making technical concepts accessible to a broad audience.
Her spoken German is awkward, but she can read German text and give feedback on German interfaces.
To schedule a coaching session with Ame Elliott please send an email to [email protected].
ame's recent work
Requiem for Cyberspace and the Next Theory of Change for IoT
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From Policy to Pixels: Strategic UX Design and User Support for GDPR Implementation
![From Policy to Pixels: Strategic UX Design and User Support for GDPR Implementation](/images/superbloom.design_from_policy_to_pixels_image_1_hu3b46d119cfc64151d7f4917362a2a028_182707_250x0_resize_box_3.png)
Policy to Pixels Zine: Who Implements Cookie Banners?
![Policy to Pixels Zine: Who Implements Cookie Banners?](/images/superbloom.design_from_policy_to_pixels_zine_photo_1_hu754e4de531a6bde443681ed05061aa8f_1221222_250x0_resize_q75_box.jpg)