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  1. @raphaelmorgan Yes! It is called Ethical Design:

    ethicaldesign.guide/

    Also highly recommend the Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen - such a great read:

    ethicaldesignhandbook.com/

    #EthicalDesign #Design #Ethics

  2. @raphaelmorgan Yes! It is called Ethical Design:

    ethicaldesign.guide/

    Also highly recommend the Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen - such a great read:

    ethicaldesignhandbook.com/

    #EthicalDesign #Design #Ethics

  3. @raphaelmorgan Yes! It is called Ethical Design:

    ethicaldesign.guide/

    Also highly recommend the Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen - such a great read:

    ethicaldesignhandbook.com/

    #EthicalDesign #Design #Ethics

  4. @raphaelmorgan Yes! It is called Ethical Design:

    ethicaldesign.guide/

    Also highly recommend the Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen - such a great read:

    ethicaldesignhandbook.com/

    #EthicalDesign #Design #Ethics

  5. @raphaelmorgan Yes! It is called Ethical Design:

    ethicaldesign.guide/

    Also highly recommend the Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen - such a great read:

    ethicaldesignhandbook.com/

    #EthicalDesign #Design #Ethics

  6. 3/3: To join a community built on real resonance and in-person connection, visit the FediCollective website. We are tech founders, designers, and developers building "Gentle Systems."

    We optimize human connection through face-to-face co-regulation.

    Rooted in Transmutarianism, we are anchored in the Economy of Wisdom Foundation.

    Our goal is to serve Vancouver and the world with kindness, abundance, and Ethical Design.

    More at: fedicollective.lovable.app/

    #FediCollective #Transmutarianism #EthicalDesign

  7. 3/3: To join a community built on real resonance and in-person connection, visit the FediCollective website. We are tech founders, designers, and developers building "Gentle Systems."

    We optimize human connection through face-to-face co-regulation.

    Rooted in Transmutarianism, we are anchored in the Economy of Wisdom Foundation.

    Our goal is to serve Vancouver and the world with kindness, abundance, and Ethical Design.

    More at: fedicollective.lovable.app/

    #FediCollective #Transmutarianism #EthicalDesign

  8. 3/3: To join a community built on real resonance and in-person connection, visit the FediCollective website. We are tech founders, designers, and developers building "Gentle Systems."

    We optimize human connection through face-to-face co-regulation.

    Rooted in Transmutarianism, we are anchored in the Economy of Wisdom Foundation.

    Our goal is to serve Vancouver and the world with kindness, abundance, and Ethical Design.

    More at: fedicollective.lovable.app/

    #FediCollective #Transmutarianism #EthicalDesign

  9. 3/3: To join a community built on real resonance and in-person connection, visit the FediCollective website. We are tech founders, designers, and developers building "Gentle Systems."

    We optimize human connection through face-to-face co-regulation.

    Rooted in Transmutarianism, we are anchored in the Economy of Wisdom Foundation.

    Our goal is to serve Vancouver and the world with kindness, abundance, and Ethical Design.

    More at: fedicollective.lovable.app/

    #FediCollective #Transmutarianism #EthicalDesign

  10. 3/3: To join a community built on real resonance and in-person connection, visit the FediCollective website. We are tech founders, designers, and developers building "Gentle Systems."

    We optimize human connection through face-to-face co-regulation.

    Rooted in Transmutarianism, we are anchored in the Economy of Wisdom Foundation.

    Our goal is to serve Vancouver and the world with kindness, abundance, and Ethical Design.

    More at: fedicollective.lovable.app/

    #FediCollective #Transmutarianism #EthicalDesign

  11. "[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:
    👉🏼 d3e.co/y5

    With love and light,
    Brian

    #design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism

  12. "[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:
    👉🏼 d3e.co/y5

    With love and light,
    Brian

    #design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism

  13. "[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:
    👉🏼 d3e.co/y5

    With love and light,
    Brian

    #design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism

  14. "[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:
    👉🏼 d3e.co/y5

    With love and light,
    Brian

    #design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism

  15. "[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:
    👉🏼 d3e.co/y5

    With love and light,
    Brian

    #design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism

  16. medium.com/@emilyhustlenyc/i-f

    I just read a developer’s account of interviewing at Uber. They had to create a real-time surge pricing engine. I have a real problem with companies designing behaviours that just bleed everyone else dry. Creating more of a divisive world where the wealthy can do what they want but the drivers aren’t the ones benefitting.

    There’s a good reason some cities ban their surge pricing entirely. Hopefully more will.
    #EthicalDesign

  17. medium.com/@emilyhustlenyc/i-f

    I just read a developer’s account of interviewing at Uber. They had to create a real-time surge pricing engine. I have a real problem with companies designing behaviours that just bleed everyone else dry. Creating more of a divisive world where the wealthy can do what they want but the drivers aren’t the ones benefitting.

    There’s a good reason some cities ban their surge pricing entirely. Hopefully more will.
    #EthicalDesign

  18. medium.com/@emilyhustlenyc/i-f

    I just read a developer’s account of interviewing at Uber. They had to create a real-time surge pricing engine. I have a real problem with companies designing behaviours that just bleed everyone else dry. Creating more of a divisive world where the wealthy can do what they want but the drivers aren’t the ones benefitting.

    There’s a good reason some cities ban their surge pricing entirely. Hopefully more will.
    #EthicalDesign

  19. medium.com/@emilyhustlenyc/i-f

    I just read a developer’s account of interviewing at Uber. They had to create a real-time surge pricing engine. I have a real problem with companies designing behaviours that just bleed everyone else dry. Creating more of a divisive world where the wealthy can do what they want but the drivers aren’t the ones benefitting.

    There’s a good reason some cities ban their surge pricing entirely. Hopefully more will.
    #EthicalDesign

  20. medium.com/@emilyhustlenyc/i-f

    I just read a developer’s account of interviewing at Uber. They had to create a real-time surge pricing engine. I have a real problem with companies designing behaviours that just bleed everyone else dry. Creating more of a divisive world where the wealthy can do what they want but the drivers aren’t the ones benefitting.

    There’s a good reason some cities ban their surge pricing entirely. Hopefully more will.
    #EthicalDesign

  21. Every other decision app hides how it works.

    運 (UN) tells you upfront: "This coin is 51% biased toward action."

    That honesty doesn't break the tool—it's our competitive advantage.

    apple.co/4qbSpP0

    #Transparency #EthicalDesign #Honesty

  22. This Ada Lovelace Institute blog is a fascinating read "Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions"
    adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/

    BUT it just hit me RN that it's FapGPT cumming soon (pun intended). Nah bro, I don't make apologies for my dirty mind

    TLDR
    #AIcompanions offer constant availability and positive support but pose risks such as social displacement, unrealistic expectations, and emotional dependency.

    Concerns exist regarding #DataPrivacy, potential manipulation, and the normalization of negative behaviours, highlighting the need for #EthicalDesign and regulation due to the lack of long-term research and business models prioritizing engagement over user well-being

    ICYMI
    1. ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58

    2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
    cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-co

  23. This Ada Lovelace Institute blog is a fascinating read "Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions"
    adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/

    BUT it just hit me RN that it's FapGPT cumming soon (pun intended). Nah bro, I don't make apologies for my dirty mind

    TLDR
    #AIcompanions offer constant availability and positive support but pose risks such as social displacement, unrealistic expectations, and emotional dependency.

    Concerns exist regarding #DataPrivacy, potential manipulation, and the normalization of negative behaviours, highlighting the need for #EthicalDesign and regulation due to the lack of long-term research and business models prioritizing engagement over user well-being

    ICYMI
    1. ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58

    2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
    cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-co

  24. This Ada Lovelace Institute blog is a fascinating read "Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions"
    adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/

    BUT it just hit me RN that it's FapGPT cumming soon (pun intended). Nah bro, I don't make apologies for my dirty mind

    TLDR
    #AIcompanions offer constant availability and positive support but pose risks such as social displacement, unrealistic expectations, and emotional dependency.

    Concerns exist regarding #DataPrivacy, potential manipulation, and the normalization of negative behaviours, highlighting the need for #EthicalDesign and regulation due to the lack of long-term research and business models prioritizing engagement over user well-being

    ICYMI
    1. ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58

    2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
    cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-co

  25. This Ada Lovelace Institute blog is a fascinating read "Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions"
    adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/

    BUT it just hit me RN that it's FapGPT cumming soon (pun intended). Nah bro, I don't make apologies for my dirty mind

    TLDR
    #AIcompanions offer constant availability and positive support but pose risks such as social displacement, unrealistic expectations, and emotional dependency.

    Concerns exist regarding #DataPrivacy, potential manipulation, and the normalization of negative behaviours, highlighting the need for #EthicalDesign and regulation due to the lack of long-term research and business models prioritizing engagement over user well-being

    ICYMI
    1. ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58

    2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
    cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-co

  26. This Ada Lovelace Institute blog is a fascinating read "Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions"
    adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/

    BUT it just hit me RN that it's FapGPT cumming soon (pun intended). Nah bro, I don't make apologies for my dirty mind

    TLDR
    #AIcompanions offer constant availability and positive support but pose risks such as social displacement, unrealistic expectations, and emotional dependency.

    Concerns exist regarding #DataPrivacy, potential manipulation, and the normalization of negative behaviours, highlighting the need for #EthicalDesign and regulation due to the lack of long-term research and business models prioritizing engagement over user well-being

    ICYMI
    1. ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58

    2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
    cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-co

  27. UX design is powerful. But not always for the right reasons.
    Dark patterns — deceptive interfaces that push users into choices they don’t want — aren’t one-size-fits-all. They’re tailored. Adjusted. Built to exploit vulnerabilities differently in kids, teens, and adults.

    👉 Full article: bitskingdom.com/blog/dark-patt

    #UXDesign #DarkPatterns #EthicalDesign #UI #UserExperience  #darkpatterns #design #ui #UIdesign #userexperience #userinterface #usercentric #...

  28. 📄 Good design isn’t about awards, aesthetics, or ego—it’s about solving real problems.
    Human-centered design focuses on clarity, purpose, and ethics, creating work that actually serves its audience.

    In this article, inspired by Jorge Frascara’s "Graphic Design for the People", we explore how design can be a tool for meaningful communication—and why that matters more than ever.

    👉 Read more: bitskingdom.com/blog/what-is-h

    #humancentereddesign #ethicaldesign #desi...