Design Ethics
WORKSHOP
Like every other human being on the planet we share, designers are part of the social contract. By choosing to be a designer you are choosing to affect the people who come in contact with your work. Learn how to tell if your work will hurt or help those people and how to measure social impact alongside shareholder value.
What you’ll learn
You’re responsible for what you put into the world. Every choice you make, whether working for yourself or working for someone else, needs to take that into consideration. This workshop will teach you the basic principles of working ethically. We’ll go over how to measure social impact as a key metric, how to tell if you’re designing something dangerous, and how to tell the people who hired you they’re designing something dangerous. The effect of what you put into the world needs to be a consideration in your work.
Who it’s for
Anyone who works in or around design, technology, or business should be a part of this. The material is especially critical for new entrepreneurial companies.
How it works
This remote workshop is highly interactive and conversational, proceeding through a series of challenging questions and dialogues—as Socrates intended. We review ten basic tenets of working ethically and confront the realities of putting them into practice, including the distractions and temptations every designer faces.
It provided me with new strategies and perspectives that I’ve put to use every single day since. I can’t recommend this workshop highly enough.
—Stephanie Lucas, Senior Product Designer