2 posts in this series
Public Badges bridge the gap between what organizations claim and what they actually value, making trust visible and trustworthiness verifiable. Through this series, you'll discover how to align expectations, communicate authentic values, and build stronger relationships with your community—moving beyond security theater to genuine, earned trust.
On the internet, lacunas of trust are mostly countered by tightening security measures. This move hardly ever results in the intended result, and almost always weakens the trust relations between digital citizens. With Public Badges, we enable organizations and initiatives to communicate why they are trustworthy to their users.
Behaviour Driven Development is a practice that helps engineers and their users to align their expectations. In this post, I explain how Public Badges build on this practice by rendering the implicit values behind these expectations explicit.