The Ethical Designer

For decades, the spaces we live in have been built by consensus. Planners, architects, councils, consultation; and always the watchful eye of the regulators and elected officials. But the world’s favourite digital spaces are largely in the hands of people like you and me. We have to oversee ourselves – and it’s not going very well. It’s time for our industry to become ethically aware, if we’re to have a chance of doing the right thing.

by Cennydd Bowles, at UX Australia 2015

Transcript

1. THE ETHICAL DESIGNER
2. THE ETHICAL DESIGNER
3. BARRIERS TO 
 ETHICAL DISCUSSION
4. THE ETHICS OF
 PHYSICAL SPACE
5. THE ETHICS OF
 DIGITAL SPACE
6. SCALE
7. ACCESSIBILITY
8. PERSUASION
9. PERSUASION
10. ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
11. DARK PATTERNS
12. DISRUPTION
13. THE ENVIRONMENT
14. “There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.” —VICTOR PAPANEK
15. TRAINING OURSELVES TO THINK ETHICALLY
16. 1. THINK 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS 3. UNIVERSALISE 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT 1. THINK
17. (INCLUDING THIS ONE) 1. THINK 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS 3. UNIVERSALISE 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS
18. 1. THINK 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS 3. UNIVERSALISE 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT 3. UNIVERSALISE
19. “Treat humanity […] never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”
20. 1. THINK 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS 3. UNIVERSALISE 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
21. 1. THINK 2. DISTRUST SLOGANS 3. UNIVERSALISE 4. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT 5. COMMUNICATE
22. THANK YOU. @CENNYDD