Plaintext

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“Plaintext… provided an experience that was complete, enlightening, and profoundly impactful. I wholeheartedly recommend them to any organization looking to redefine or enhance their brand, strategy, and user experience.”

Evie Winter

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Evie founded Plaintext in 2021 and leads its UX work. A researcher and designer in usable security, Evie tackles design problems with tailored user research. She advised over 70 FOSS teams in the past 10 years and specializes in privacy-enhancing technologies. Where needed, she also works as a facilitator and liaises between developer and user communities. Previously she worked as a program director and UX consultant at several nonprofits across Europe and the United States.

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“The work that we did with Plaintext has continued to inspire us and help us think differently about… security. Evie’s knowledge has helped our team to focus on specific areas that will have the greatest impact, as well as changing our overall approach.”

Alana Taylor

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Alana has 10 years’ experience consulting nonprofit and grassroots organisations on how to harness tech and design for better communication. As a specialist in strategic communications and design project management, she ensures that Plaintext Design’s UX and design work is grounded in a holistic approach that centers people and communication. Several years of experience as a UX writer and translator grounds her strategic work in the fundamentals of UX and localization.

Maggie Smith

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Maggie brings 10 years’ experience as a graphic designer and illustrator. She has worked for many global brands and was the lead designer at a global nonprofit, where she liaised with government, corporate and grassroots stakeholders. She leads Plaintext Design’s branding design work and is passionate about usability and accessibility in visual design.

Antonela Debiasi

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Antonela is a product design lead focusing on usable security. She is interested in critical internet infrastructure, security, privacy, open-source communities, decentralization, and feminism as an intersectional practice. Before, she led the User Experience team at The Tor Project, focusing on providing a usable privacy-enhanced experience while browsing the internet in the global south.

Scott Jenson

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Scott has been working in user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was UX director of Symbian, VP of product design for Cognima, managed mobile UX for Google and was a creative director at frog design in San Francisco. Scott returned to Google in 2013 to lead the Physical Web project and research future Android UX concepts. In 2021, Scott left Google to explore more FOSS, coaching, and mentoring roles.

Susan Farrell

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As the principal UX researcher at All Turtles since 2017, Susan collaborates with early-stage software product teams to build great user experiences. Prior to joining All Turtles, Susan spent 18 years at Nielsen Norman Group. She was their first user-experience specialist, and there she engaged with companies in many industries — multinationals, government, open source, and early startups — on website and mobile-device usability, interaction design, and information architecture.

Al Hudood

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Cabal

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Delta Chat

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nthLink

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OpenMLS

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Quiet

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Services

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We make complex technologies easy and intuitive to use - and develop outreach strategies to help the right people find them.

Usability

Research and discovery
User testing and tool audits
UX/UI design

Communications

Branding, messaging and tone-of-voice
Communications and outreach strategy
Visual and graphic design