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"[Y]our burnout, your lack of influence, your sense that the discipline has lost its way are not evidence of your individual shortcomings but symptoms of a system working exactly as it is designed to work."

In this poignant essay (linked below), Angelos Arnis describes the state of design in the age of AI. But it didn't start with AI...

"[T]he institutional arrangements within which design operates are configured to extract design's value while withholding design's autonomy and authority..."

Folks like Mike Monteiro, Erika Hall, Aral Balkan, and Laura Kalbag opened my eyes to this dynamic around 2014/2015. It started as a call to action for us designers to own the ethics of what we do, challenge expoitative business models, and 'do no harm.'

But I've long felt that the game is rigged against us on this. Angelos says this:

"The more I look at the state of tech, the more I recognize a specific structure operating in two distinct ways: the way business absorbs design's attempts at strategic influence, and the way AI tools absorb designers' labor while promising to liberate it."

Still, some designers manage to ake meaningful change, despite the obstacles:

"The designer who can navigate an organization that does not grant them autonomy and still produces meaningful work is doing something admirable. But the skill being developed is the skill of operating within someone else's terms."

I agree. And I realize that it's not easy to resist pressure from your boss, manager, or PM to just design the thing and not ask too many questions. We need to earn a living, right?

So we get beautifully designed products that effectively encourage behavior change that ultimately exploits the product's users to benefit the company that makes it. We get surveillance capitalism, predatory social media platforms, and tech products that enable fascist governments.

But I don't blame designers. I don't even blame the decision-makers who got us here. They are, indeed we all are, just humans doing our best. And most of us are too busy, burned out, or stuck in survival mode to feel the proverbial water heating up around us.

Also, people AI make very seductive promises about AI while convincing us that it's inevitable. Angelos says this:

"The technology generates a feeling of individual empowerment while producing deeper informal dependence. You feel more capable, yet you are truly more depending than ever."

So in Angelos' words, "How might we design the structures that would make design's autonomy a material reality rather than a perpetual aspiration?"

🤷🏼‍♂️ What do you think?

Thanks for reading, dear one! And thank you Matthijs for sharing this with me!

Here's the essay:
👉🏼 https://d3e.co/y5

With love and light,
Brian

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Hold the line · Ethical content design in a broken system https://ilo.im/169dpw

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#Ethics #Content #AI #EthicalDesign #ContentDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

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Designing for users’ values—or yours? · From designing screens to defining moral guardrails https://ilo.im/16934m

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#Business #Users #Values #Framework #Ethics #EthicalDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

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The good, the bad, and the iffy · Is there such a thing as an ethical designer? https://ilo.im/166mjk

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Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)

https://vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook

#TIL about one of the many potentially important standards reports that seem to have been pushed onto the backburner by the pandemic.;

"The report, Ethically Aligned Design, was released today by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It is the culmination of a year's work by 250 world leaders in technology, law, social science, business and government spanning six continents."

#IEEE, 2017

https://techxplore.com/news/2017-12-philosophers-sociologists-ethical-guidelines-future.html

#ethics #EthicalTech #EthicalDesign #EthicalStandards

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Defense against dishonest charts · How not to lie with data visualizations https://ilo.im/162ger

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The world would be a better place with more open and transparent #software. That’s why we want to move towards using more #opensource software in our design workflows. But we need help! If you know #BlenderBIM, #sverchok and/or #freecad reach out to us if you’re interested.

#ethicaldesign #vegandesign #foss

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Ethical evolution in the age of AI: Why fear and complacency are not options
Artificial Intelligence is not the problem; humans are

https://uxdesign.cc/ethical-evolution-in-the-age-of-ai-why-fear-and-complacency-are-not-options-2f8fd35eec16

#aiethics #ethicalai #ethicsofai #algoethics #computerethics #ethicaltech #ethicaldesign #humanity #AI #humanity

Algorithmic Nudges Don’t Have to Be Unethical

https://hbr.org/2021/04/algorithmic-nudges-dont-have-to-be-unethical

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Ethical Contribution: Maximizing the Common Good

https://ssrn.com/abstract=4418009

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Dark patterns in online subscription services · The majority of the examined services trick users https://ilo.im/15zhh4

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Ethics in times of growth design · The challenge of aligning user and business needs https://ilo.im/15ykn1

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OK, so got an online design jam coming up 16th-18th November, exploring intersection of design justice, community centred/civic service design and GLAM data.

Sound interesting? Know people who'd be interested?

Well, sign up and share! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/749732840107

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Forget Explain it like I'm 5. Let's try #DesignLikeImFive!

If a 5 year old can't use your software then it's badly designed. After all, children in schools need to use these tools too! #EthicalDesign #Accessibility #freesoftware #edtech #UX #EthicalTechnology

Ethical design isn’t about trying to reform billion-dollar corporations like Google and Facebook that have fundamentally unethical business models, it’s about designing organisations with ethical business models that, therefore, can create ethical products and services.

https://ind.ie/ethical-design

#EthicalDesign #EthicalTechnology

How about we take the billions that Google and other surveillance capitalists have been fined in the EU and invest them in organisations making ethical (free and open, decentralised, and interoperable) alternatives to surveillance capitalism.

#ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign

So impressed right now with the quality of free and open source apps available for Linux. This is Pitivi (https://pitivi.org), rendering a slight edit to my talk at IxDA Berlin.

#ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign #floss

Just yoinked myself a Reform beta 3 kit to play with. Awesome project by @mntmn with lots of potential based right here in our own back yard in the EU :)

(This one’s for developers… so if you’re looking for something to tinker with and explore future possibilities, check it out!)

https://shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-reform-beta-3-1-0-ghz-limited-early-supporter-kit?taxon_id=13

#ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign

Purism – the ethical, free and open computer and phone maker – adopts the Ind.ie Ethical Design Manifesto.

https://puri.sm/posts/we-love-ethical-design/

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