Articles about Ethics
How to Persuade without Manipulation (Book Review)
Ethical design is becoming an increasingly important topic. But how can you incorporate ethical practices in your existing company? This handbook offers a wealth of advice on how to begin the process and modify workflow to produce products that benefit the user and the business alike. As a balanced mix of theory and practical guidelines, this book will guide you to delight your customers while increasing revenues, without resorting to shady tricks and manipulation. This review includes an example of simple framework for design decisions. [Read More]
Will the Machine Take Over? Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (Book Review)
A review of AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh. An introduction to the importance of ethical considerations within the field of Artificial Intelligence. [Read More]
Designing for Social Technologies: Responsible Privacy Design
Concerns about negative social consequences can be a barrier to online participation. UX designers have the opportunity and responsibility to design for overcoming this. [Read More]
The Cost of Bad Design (Book Review)
Tragic Design, by Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier, reveals how design choices can negatively impact users and provides techniques to avoid harmful design decisions. [Read More]
Getting Practical with Trust: A Designer’s Toolkit
Are designers the key to closing the trust gap? They might be. This article showcases the practicalities of how. [Read More]
How to Build A Better Future (Book Review)
A review of Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles, which offers advice on how to use ethical theory to help navigate through the modern technological landscape. [Read More]
Building an Ethics Framework for UX Design, Part 2
Ethical issues, surprisingly caused by benevolent intent, are often left unnoticed in UX design. Conscious awareness is the primary step in tackling these pressing issues. [Read More]
Building an Ethics Framework for UX Design
A compilation and categorization of the different ethical issues within UX design [Read More]
Developing a Code of Ethics for UX Design: What We Can Learn from the Field of Architecture
Architectural initiatives optimize human wellness in the design of buildings. This article explores how these models could translate into an ethical design approach to UX. [Read More]
Responsible Design: Approaches for Reducing Uncertainty and Anxiety
Responsible experience design recognizes design can compound societal feelings of uncertainty and anxiety and solutions ways to achieve business goals while protecting end users. [Read More]
Big Data UX: Research Opportunity and Ethical Challenge
As UX professionals we need to serve as gatekeepers to properly handle ethical challenges when using videos of users’ participation within large sample new research tools. [Read More]
Getting Better Design Feedback: Anonymized User Research
Anonymity can affect the quality of user research. To ensure anonymity, UX professionals must set expectations around privacy and follow best practices about revealing personal information that might identify research participants. [Read More]
Thinking Thoroughly, Widely, and Deeply: Developing User Experience Designers in China
A user experience designer must have three key abilities to create ethical and human products: to think thoroughly, think widely, and think deeply. [Read More]
Persuasive Design: When Does UX Become Evil?
UX turns evil when human behaviors are used to manipulate people into spending additional money. [Read More]
Should We Conduct this Usability Study? Ethics Considerations in Evaluations
Can it be unethical to conduct a user experience evaluation? An accessibility evaluation before a usability test can prevent frustrating, painful, or difficult situations. [Read More]
Testing by Minors: Risk Prevention for UX Pros
When conducting testing with children, full disclosure and reasonable procedures are your best defense against potential legal complications. [Read More]
