Ethics

Design itself is ethics. It is all about what is the right thing to do. Our lives is all made as an argument about how we should live our lives. The word is contradiction within itself for our attention. Deciding where and how to employ the art of design is an ethical issue. Designers need to be both technically right and compellingly wise. Wisdom is about evaluating and choosing between competing principles. To be wise is to be aware, and awareness is the passage to action. We study ethics in order to improve our live, and therefore its principle concern is the nature of human well-being.

To prepare yourself for the multitude of ethical considerations you can start by examining your own stance as a designer, your own values, who you are designing for and what kind of values are you trying to embed in your design solutions and why?

The core about ethics is to ask yourself questions, "do you think it creates a better world?", "who is this for?", "Why?", "How?", "Is someone's good someone else's bad?". It is also about the moral of being a designer, the value you hold in within, the message you are trying to tell someone, is it something positive or negative? or what effects comes next.

Bibliography:
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/polut/Yhteiskunnalliset/lisatieto_ethics_primer.html