Daily Ethical Design
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The document discusses the importance of integrating ethics into daily design practices for interaction and service designers, emphasizing that this approach enhances quality and prevents misuse. It proposes methods such as tracking assumptions, seeking to be proven wrong, and conducting 'dark reality sessions' to address the ethical implications of design. Ultimately, it advocates for a structured reflection on the long-term impact of design decisions on society and the environment.
Daily Ethical Design
- 1. Daily Ethical Design Lennart Overkamp Interaction & Service Designer @OverkampLennart World Usability Day November 8th, 2018
- 3. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 5. It’s easy to have principles, yet hard to be principled.
- 6. Society Sustainability Focus Persuasion User involvementPrivacy Accessibility Usability Design ethics
- 7. Daily ethical design Ethics integrated structurally in our daily practice as designers, overcomes the inconvenience of acting ethically, prevents misuse and mistakes, adds automatically to the quality of our work, and will establish a higher standard for design.
- 8. How might we structurally integrate ethics in our daily design practices?
- 9. #1 Keep track of your assumptions #2 Seek always to be proven wrong #3 Conduct Dark Reality session(s) #5 Connect to company’s mission and values #4 Make use of the power of checklists
- 10. Questions to ask about your design (concept): • What is the entire life span? For how far in the future are you creating the solution? • What is the indirect impact? What are the long- term effects on economy, society, and environment? • Who is affected? Who benefits, who loses? Who is excluded? • How could it be misused? Who has control over it? Who is powerless to defend against it? Deliverable: design forecast document Dark Reality session as a standard component of the concept phase
- 11. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. Harlan Ellison, writer (1934-2018)
- 12. Thank you! Alan Cooper @MrAlanCooper David Berman https://davidberman.com/ Mike Monteiro https://medium.com/@monteiro And of course: my colleagues!
- 13. Let’s connect! Lennart Overkamp Interaction & Service Designer @OverkampLennart [email protected] linkedin.com/in/lennartoverkamp medium.com/@lennartoverkamp