Like every other human being on the planet we share, people who create products and services are part of the social contract. By choosing to work in technology or design, 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.
Topics we will cover:
What are design ethics?
The designer’s responsibility
Prioritizing ethical duties to business, colleagues, customers, and others
Social impact vs shareholder value
Frameworks for ethical decision-making
Key thinkers in ethics and design history
Applying the frameworks to product and business decisions
The workshop is discussion-based and highly interactive. We invite participants to bring their own ethical dilemmas, questions, or decisions they’ve been struggling with.
Everyone will walk away with a clear framework and toolkit for evaluating the ethical implications of their product decisions.
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About Mike Monteiro
Mike is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design Studio, based in San Francisco. He writes and speaks frequently about the craft, ethics, and business of design, and is the author of the now-classic Design Is a Job and You're My Favorite Client.
In 2014 Mike won .net’s Talk of the Year award for How Designers Destroyed the World, a cheery exhortation to do better work.