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EuroIA
Original title
Mostly Harmless: Design for digital with a conscience
A workshop at the EuroIA Summit in Dublin on 28 September 2018: how to incorporate ethical, sustainable and inclusive thinking into the design process. I gave “Mostly Harmless” again at World IA Day Zürich in February 2019.
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- Why we do risk assessments for the product itself but rarely for the people using it – and how to start predicting and managing harm.
- Framing as a choice: “How you frame the problem will tell you if you are human-centric or organization-centric.”
- Cognitive bias, machine bias and the replication crisis in research, with real-world cases like Nextdoor reducing racist posts.
- Hands-on worksheets from a workbook, including the Inclusive Panda for mapping the people you might exclude or hurt with your design.
- Slides, workbook and reading list shared openly under Creative Commons afterwards.
What people said
So much to reflect on after a great workshop about how to incorporate ethical, sustainable and inclusive thinking into the design process.
Just finished the first workshop, “Mostly Harmless”, and I have mixed feelings: existential crisis / motivational injection.
Amazing and incredibly cute tool to map the people you are excluding or hurting with your design.
A EuroIA highlight! He unpacked an overloaded term and shared with us practical tools to actually design ethically and inclusively.
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