Digital Ethics

We’d like to see technology become more responsible — in terms of how it’s developed, how it works for users, and how it affects society.

The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it?

Too many designers, argues Thomas Wendt, believe that doing empathy = doing good design. But empathy isn't a substitute for ethics.

The area of ethics in user experience design ranges from providing complete freedom for the users, up to making all the choices for them.

Five questions for designers

As computer programmers write code that runs everything from airplanes to pharmacy orders, there's a serious need for ethical training and guidelines.

Would you take on a client who’s business was ethically appalling to you? How far will you stretch the truth to help a client sell their products or services? When taking inspiration from another site for one you’re designing how much of that other site gets incorporated into your design and how close does your […]

Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, is determined to find the answer.

A talk with Jonathan Shariat, a Silicon-Valley based director of product & design. Most conversations about the value of user experience (UX) are in relation to what we can get from it: Supercharge conversions! Boost repeat business! Increase form completion rates! These things aren’t actually

"Success is measured by number of downloads and star ratings on the app store."

An incubation space for new standards and solutions, certifications and codes of conduct, and consensus building for ethical implementation of intelligent technologies

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”

Part of our Human x Design series, a look at how we grapple with the complex nature of designing for people.

I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we…

The human brain is a complex mass of energy designed to respond to the world around it, and more specifically, designed to make effective…

We’ve got Robyn Kanner and Mike Monteiro on the show to talk about ethics in design. When and, more importantly, how should you stand up to a manager when they tell you to design something in…

5 Questions for Cory Doctorow

LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

The company, whose CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, masterminded the dark arts of manipulative UX.

New research by Global Voices tech and digital rights experts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines exposes the ups and downs of Facebook's "Free Basics" app.

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.

DEBATT. Allt pekade på en monumental förlust. Men på grund av en av de mest framgångsrika – och skrämmande – digitala kampanjer som världen någonsin skådat, gick ­Donald Trump segrande ur striden om presidentposten i USA, skriver ­Dora Streiffert och Preben Carlsen, Trigger.

Nudges that benefit companies and not consumers are a misguided use of a principle of behavioral economics.

New study provides insight into how we could program morality into autonomous vehicles.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jonathan Shariat, senior interaction designer at Intuit and co-author of the forthcoming book "Tragic Design." We talk about his new book and survey some use cases that point a spotlight on the importance of ethical standards in design.

This week, Ian Sample explores the psychology behind ‘nudging’, its usage by governments, and some of the ethical quandaries involved

In the first of a series of blogs on design and sustainability, Chris Sherwin argues that design will be the key feature in the next wave of sustainability