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You're a designer / developer / tech worker and watching #TheSocialDilema on @Netflix has you questioning your role in perpetuating #SurveillanceCapitalism and other harmful practices. Now you're asking yourself "What can I do to change things?" Good news: there are answers!
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Tech #ethics has been working on this problem for decades, and there are frameworks and practices already in existence you can apply to your design and development practice today to help our industry move toward a more equitable and less corrosive path. Some examples:
The team at @scuethics has published what in my opinion is the most comprehensive educational toolkit for #ethics in technology practice: https://www.scu.edu/ethics-in-technology-practice/
Ethicist @ShannonVallor has a great book called "Technology and the Virtues" worth reading: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/technology-and-the-virtues-9780190498511?cc=ca&lang=en& She also has numerous talks online covering the same topic.
The @OmidyarNetwork has published several useful tools, the most recent of which is the Ethical Explorer Pack: https://ethicalexplorer.org
If you are looking for a hands-on practical guide to think ethically about design and development practice, and center your own craft on doing good things for people, The Conscious Creative by @kelly_small is for you: https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-conscious-creative
In need of in-depth practical examples on how to design and build ethical interfaces? @trinefalbe and colleagues have a book for you titled The Ethical Design Handbook, published by @smashingmag: https://ethicaldesignhandbook.com/
Want to go even more hands-on and center your personal, team, or company practice on ethics and make ethical decision making part of your process? I made a @LI_learning course just for you: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/technology-and-design-ethics/
I've also developed a framework for ethical design and development practice called Capability-Centered Design. You can learn all about that at @aneventapart Fall Summit in October: https://aneventapart.com/event/online-1020
Or if you can't wait, you can check out my talk from @aneventapart Human Centered Design earlier this summer: https://aneventapart.com/event/online-0720
Bottom line: These are solvable problems. What's needed is for each of us who work in design and tech to make #ethics a core part of our practice as we stand together in a united effort to make design and tech about human flourishing instead of selling democracy to turn a profit
Ethical Design: Work furthering human flourishing through ethical practice and methodology, centered on the rights, capabilities, and agency of the human end-user.
Oh, and finally, I'm available for talks and workshops on making #ethics part of your design and development practice. Meetups, conferences, organizations, corporations, ping me and we'll make it happen!
