The graphic design community has been talking about this for a long
time. The First Things First manifesto is one reaction to this
problem.
it was first published in 1964:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm
Then updated in 2000:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf2000.htm
Milton Glaser's
I would love to see these types of things discussed at an Ethics
panel at the IxD 10 Conference in Savannah... as a sign of the
maturation process of our profession/craft.
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clearer before.
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From: live human.factor@gmail.com
To: William Brall dam...@earthlink.net
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Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.
Ethical except for, you know, this kind of one act play
It seems like what was a discussion about choice architecture that
reduced the liklihood of getting a discount in an online store
rapidly degenerated into an ethical soapbox (however worthy) about
gays in the military. I'm not sure we can extrapolate that far on
this list.
That aside, is - for
On Jun 21, 2009, at 8:30 AM, j...@smorgasbord-design.co.uk wrote:
Likewise, some of the libertarian paternalism discussed by behavioral
economists could be considered unethical but these very real
architectural paeadigms have had scant discussion on these forums.
I wish the IxDA site had a
: Sunday, June 21, 2009 9:34 AM
To: j...@smorgasbord-design.co.uk
Cc: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.
On Jun 21, 2009, at 8:30 AM, j...@smorgasbord-design.co.uk wrote:
Likewise, some of the libertarian paternalism discussed by behavioral
economists
I think that one has to ask the ethical question very often.
In fact it can be helpful to sort things out.
Is making the logo bigger an ethical question? You can argue that
the logo is shouting or harder to read but in the end if the client
insists, it is not a moral issue, even if it offends
Stick to your guns. Be ethical. Be personally responsible. Advertise
that you do these things and give examples of where you have left
jobs due to ethics. Ethical people will hire you and the others will
not. Which is where you want to be anyway.
At least that is my opinion.
Then again. I work
Ethical except for, you know, this kind of one act play-
A Military Monday Morning Water Cooler:
Bill: Hello John. How was your weekend?
John: It was great. The wife and the kids and I went to the zoo, saw
the penguins. How was your weekend?
Bill: Good - me and the boyfriend took the dogs to
There are always slimeballs who will ask you to compromise your beliefs.
Back in the webmaster-as-designer days, a marketing manager type
came to me and said something to the effect of, I read that there's a
bug in Netscape that lets websites get the email address of anyone who
visits a
I recently ran into an issue on Drugstore.com, wherein there is a discount
offer that may be obtained, but only by a series of not-so-obvious steps—all
done on the site, but not clearly documented. In fact I accidentally
activated the promotion only because I tend to be tenacious with these
things
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