My article a few weeks back got me thinking deeper about what it would mean for us to have standard ethical guidelines in the design industry. For lawyers, journalists, and medical doctors, ethics courses are baked into their education. For us in design, we aren’t held to the same standard but should be.
Many of the privacy issues you and I have had over the past few years were probably due to designers who created apps and programs that stripped information from us. Now we have very sophisticated AI on the horizon and that adds a whole other layer to my concerns.
So, I went into some depth and wrote this week’s post about what an ethical“code of conduct” could look like for designers.
→ The Moral Implications of our Apps
Don’t build solutions in search of a problem. Just because you had an idea doesn’t mean someone needs it. The mere existence of a solution doesn’t validate the existence of a problem.