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Margaret Gould Stewart

From techno-optimism to techno-realism: What it means to innovate responsibly

As part of Grace Hopper Celebration week, I shared a few things I’ve learned over the years about how to innovate responsibly when building…

8 min readSep 28, 2021

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From techno-optimism to techno-realism: What it means to innovate responsibly

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Design at Meta

Problems versus Dilemmas: The Complex Trade-offs Produced by Social Settings

Facebook’s VP of Product Design and Responsible Innovation on how we design for social settings, which present dilemmas with complex…

9 min readJul 8, 2021

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A thread hangs down from a giant scribble in the sky; an illustrated character uses it to wrangle the scribble.

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Responsible Innovation: Why I’m optimistic about Facebook’s approach

As technologists, we are all stewards of some of the most powerful communication tools ever created. These tools have generated a lot of…

7 min readJun 24, 2021

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Responsible Innovation: Why I’m optimistic about Facebook’s approach

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Margaret Gould Stewart

Designing with Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

In addition to supporting a number of Facebook’s design and user research teams, I lead our Responsible Innovation & Design core team. We…

8 min readMar 27, 2020

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Designing with Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

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#LeaveAnExtra20

I waited tables and worked retail for years throughout high school, college and graduate school to support myself. I learned so many…

2 min readJul 21, 2018

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Design at Meta

Able, Allowed, Should: Navigating Modern Tech Ethics

I want to share a talk I gave on the design track at SXSW in early March of this year. This talk was inspired by a deeply held belief that…

21 min readMay 7, 2018

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Facebook Design: Business Tools

How to jump-start recruiting in hard-to-staff contexts

I’ve just hit my five-year mark at Facebook, and it’s made me nostalgic for the early days in some ways, but not in others. Something I…

10 min readMay 4, 2017

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Design Insights from Designer Fund

Respect the maker: How to weave creativity back into your day-to-day

This piece was originally posted on the Designer Fund blog. Designer Fund invests in startups co-founded by designers to build and educate…

10 min readApr 29, 2017

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Dear Grandma….a letter 25 years in the making

Dear Grandma,

3 min readNov 7, 2016

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NewCo Shift

How a single conversation with my boss changed my view on delegation and failure

One day, I was having my weekly 1:1 meeting with my boss, Andrew Bosworth. We were going through the regular updates about my team, things…

3 min readAug 5, 2016

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Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart

10.1K Followers

Vice-President of Product Design & Responsible at Facebook. Previously at YouTube & Google. Ted speaker. Passionate about design, ethics, & tech. Find me @mags.

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