“There are two words every designer needs to feel comfortable saying: “no” and “why.”  They’re the foundation of building an ethical framework. If we cannot ask “why” we lose the ability to judge whether the work we’re doing is ethical. If we cannot say “no” we lose the ability to stand and fight. We lose the ability to help shape the thing we’re responsible for shaping. - Mike Monteiro

Getting Started

• Ethics Can’t be a Side Hustle
• How Design Designs Us: The Ethics of Design
• The Win-Win Fallacy
• A Beginner’s Guide to Data Ethics
• Tech Products that Don’t Cause Depression and War

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Codes of Conduct

• A Designers Code of Ethics - Quick read by Mike Monteiro
• 10 Principles for Designing Platforms with Purpose - A code of conduct from Armillaria, a systems design lab building better digital infrastructure for collective impact. It captures the complexity of holding the above principles in mind while approaching design for systems change.
• 7 Principles for Humanitarian Design - Another code of conduct with examples.
• Center for Humane Technology Principles - A set of principles and resources for technologists, from the creators of “The Social Dilemma”.

Toolkits

• Ethics for Designers - A toolkit for ethical design. As designers, we are trained to solve problems and make people’s lives better, but rarely do we consider what 'better' actually is. It is important to understand that what we design is not neutral.