Accountability in design ethics
If design is "taking into account," then designers are on the line for the effects of our design choices.
Some years back in my professional association with Nick, before BlogLESS, before DLB, we wrote a few posts together on a blog for the company where we worked at the time. It never really got its sea legs content-wise (quite unlike the uniformly polished gems you're used to dealing with here) but Nick wrote a post there that I've thought about several times since, and today it's finally time to rep it.
What he wrote was this: Design is "taking into account." What I think he meant by this is that a maximally good design takes into account and provides answers to a maximal number of factors (usability, ergonomics, ecology, aesthetics, performance, and so on).
Wylie High School by Esther Pearl Watson (via)
| Tagged with: | Accountability, Consequentialism, Deontology, Design, Design Ethics, Moral Fallibility |
