User experience design has no ethics guidelines. Practitioners taking shortcuts due to time and budget pressures, participation in questionable business practices and projects, and a lack of considered thought all have a direct impact on ethical lapses. This opens the door to unintentional mistreatment of participants in research studies, clients, and the people who use our designs.
In contrast, other design disciplines (architecture, graphics design, industrial design, etc) and social sciences (anthropology, psychology, sociology, and others) have long-established ethics guidelines. Behaviour of professionals and how work product is handled and used are shaped by ethical principles and practices. Ethics boards oversee these disciplines to protect the welfare and govern the treatment of participants.
We don’t need to start from scratch. We can look to our peers in other fields for direction in developing our own design ethics.
This session is recommended for anyone with an interest in discussing the ethical challenges we face in day-to-day practice, strategies to deal with the quandaries we are confronted with and starting the conversation about how to best bring design ethics to our work.
Biography
Kaleem makes things simple.
As a strategist, consultant and designer, Kaleem helps global companies, agencies, startups and governments create great experiences and solve complex problems.
Over two decades, he has worked with clients that include leaders in consumer electronics, mobile technology, Internet services, software, health care, financial services, telecom and security.
Kaleem is a member of an alphabet soup of professional user experience groups including ACM SIGCHI, IAI and IxDA. He is a UXnet ambassador, local leader of the UX Book Club, and steward of the UX Irregulars, a Toronto-based UX group with members around the world.
He is a founding partner of strategy and research consultancy True Insight.
Design Ethics
Session Title
Design Ethics
Presenter
Kaleem Khan
Session Type: Discussion
User experience design has no ethics guidelines. Practitioners taking shortcuts due to time and budget pressures, participation in questionable business practices and projects, and a lack of considered thought all have a direct impact on ethical lapses. This opens the door to unintentional mistreatment of participants in research studies, clients, and the people who use our designs.
In contrast, other design disciplines (architecture, graphics design, industrial design, etc) and social sciences (anthropology, psychology, sociology, and others) have long-established ethics guidelines. Behaviour of professionals and how work product is handled and used are shaped by ethical principles and practices. Ethics boards oversee these disciplines to protect the welfare and govern the treatment of participants.
We don’t need to start from scratch. We can look to our peers in other fields for direction in developing our own design ethics.
This session is recommended for anyone with an interest in discussing the ethical challenges we face in day-to-day practice, strategies to deal with the quandaries we are confronted with and starting the conversation about how to best bring design ethics to our work.
Biography
Kaleem makes things simple.
As a strategist, consultant and designer, Kaleem helps global companies, agencies, startups and governments create great experiences and solve complex problems.
Over two decades, he has worked with clients that include leaders in consumer electronics, mobile technology, Internet services, software, health care, financial services, telecom and security.
Kaleem is a member of an alphabet soup of professional user experience groups including ACM SIGCHI, IAI and IxDA. He is a UXnet ambassador, local leader of the UX Book Club, and steward of the UX Irregulars, a Toronto-based UX group with members around the world.
He is a founding partner of strategy and research consultancy True Insight.