@xgouchet @xgouchet About me… Xavier F. Gouchet Android developer since the Cupcake years Lead Android Engineer at WorkWell @xgouchet on every social network you can think of… 2
@xgouchet @xgouchet What does ethical mean ? ethics /ˈɛθɪks/ n. moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity moral /ˈmɒr(ə)l/ adj. concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour. extralegal /ˌɛkstrəˈliːɡ(ə)l/ adj. (of an action or situation) beyond the province of the law. 8
@xgouchet @xgouchet Give a f*** about what your users think? Would your users be happy if they were in the meeting room ? Would you make the same choices ? Are your users also your clients ? 11
@xgouchet @xgouchet Who will be impacted by the code you write ? How will your users be impacted, directly or indirectly ? Social Networks ? Online Presence ? Device ? 14
@xgouchet “ @xgouchet Our computers are thousands of times more powerful than the ones that brought man to the moon. Yet every other webpage struggles to maintain a smooth 60fps scroll on the latest top-of-the-line MacBook Pro. — Nikita Prokopov 15
@xgouchet @xgouchet Is this UI / UX relevant? Ask anyone using a dedicated piece of software: Is the UI / UX sensible for them? Is the UI / UX accessible? 16
@xgouchet @xgouchet Maintaining your app? Which bug to fix ? To fix first ? Which OS version to support ? Keep maintaining old versions for 1% of the user base ? 20
@xgouchet “ @xgouchet Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. — Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) 23
@xgouchet @xgouchet Intellectual Property Do you credit third party libraries in your app ? Do you credit the code snippet you copied/pasted from StackOverflow ? Do you credit the authors of content in your app ? Do you make money off of them ? 33
@xgouchet @xgouchet Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. 40
@xgouchet @xgouchet Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. 41
@xgouchet @xgouchet The Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice ● IEEE/CS & ACM ● 1997 ● Version 5.2 (1999) ● https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code 42
@xgouchet @xgouchet The SE Code of Ethics and Professional Practice 1. Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest. 1.01. Accept full responsibility for their own work. […] 1.06. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools. 43
@xgouchet @xgouchet The SE Code of Ethics and Professional Practice 4. Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment. 4.01. Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values. […] 44
@xgouchet @xgouchet Programmer's Oath ● ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin ● 2015 ● Equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath ● https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgrammersOath.html 45
@xgouchet @xgouchet Programmer's Oath I Promise that, to the best of my ability and judgement I will not produce harmful code. The code that I produce will always be my best work. […] I will never stop learning and improving my craft. 46
@xgouchet @xgouchet Going Further ✘ Dark Patterns : https://darkpatterns.org/ @darkpatterns ✘ “Responsibly Smashing Pandora’s Box” by Yanqing Cheng ✘ Just World License / https://github.com/raisely/NoHarm ✘ Cognitive Biases ✘ Human Rights / SE Code of Ethics / Programmer’s Oath 49