Anna Rátkai
Aug 1, 2024

Thanks for the thoughtful answer Trip ⭐️ 100% agree, we should have a moral + ethics code and we should advocate for these practices with our stakeholders. What I find very very interesting is that if we ask individual designers and design leaders, I'm sure none of them would say: yeah I'm evil, I disregard ethics and purposefully design wasteful, unsustainable products. Yet... if we look around, wasteful, unsustainable products dominate the market. So how does this happen? When do designers stop caring about their principles and ethics and start thinking in terms of quick shareholder value and short-term business goals? Manuel Lima calls this "the moral failure of designers" and I'm planning to write a deep-dive article on this. If you have thoughts on this, I would love to hear :)

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Anna Rátkai
Anna Rátkai

Written by Anna Rátkai

UX Researcher | Speaker | The person behind Kind Commerce. Advocating for mindful consumption by design

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