Cennydd Bowles – The Ethical Designer

Presented at UX Lausanne 2015 - 2015.uxlausanne.com

Are we focusing on the right problems?
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.

Are we focusing on the right problems? Or just aggrandising the mundane? How do we know what the right problems are? How can we guide ourselves to appreciate the cultural and personal impact of the decisions we make?

It’s time for our industry to become ethically aware, if we’re to have a chance of doing the right thing.

Transcript

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