<JATS1:p>Ethics in Design and Communication brings together design educators and practitioners to provide a wide-ranging discusssion of, and challenge to engage with, the ethical issues that confront us.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Contributors address the history, theory and practice of ethics in design through critical overviews and case studies, addressing a wide range of fields including the role of infographics in coverage of the 2016 US Presidential election; ethics and new media, including applications such as Tinder; the ethics of design internships; ethics in user experience (UX) design; the design of ‘smart cities’; design research, design for sustainability, and design activism.
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Ethics in Design and Communication
“Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on which the global systems of inequity currently balance precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course of action while still functioning effectively in the world.”