Comments on: Emerging technologies are creating new ethical challenges for UX designers http://gigaom.com/2013/03/09/emerging-technologies-are-creating-new-ethical-challenges-for-ux-designers/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: imediahil http://gigaom.com/2013/03/09/emerging-technologies-are-creating-new-ethical-challenges-for-ux-designers/#comment-1328252 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:04:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=618364#comment-1328252 Reblogged this on i-hilser and commented:
Interesting ethical challenges for UX designers (and all designers by extensions IMO)

]]> By: Eric Knudtson http://gigaom.com/2013/03/09/emerging-technologies-are-creating-new-ethical-challenges-for-ux-designers/#comment-1321628 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:40:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=618364#comment-1321628 Hi Bill,

I am curious about what you think of the “First Things First Manifesto”?

Eric

http://maxbruinsma.nl/index1.html?ftf2000.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_2000_manifesto

]]> By: Nicholas Paredes http://gigaom.com/2013/03/09/emerging-technologies-are-creating-new-ethical-challenges-for-ux-designers/#comment-1318909 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:29:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=618364#comment-1318909 An article I read this morning by Michael Pollan in Lucky Peach describes the evolution of food technologies, and mentions the refinement of flours and sugars as a turning point in the manufacturing of food. I wonder how we as a society could have argue for or against these technologies. We now know that refined products have lead to heart disease and diabetes. We also know that we can feed many more mouths.

Likewise, I feel that we as designers of technology are ignorant of the complexities. They are unfathomably complex. Frankly, we could work a lot less and save the world from ourselves. A pill reminder app can promote the sales a pharmaceuticals that many probably don’t need. Alternatively, we can use the same tools designing life saving treatments along with the necessary evolution of medical intervention.

I do know that the most dangerous problem is our education and the subsequent changes to our socio-economic selves and not the technologies that we are developing. We tend to over promote the impact of our technologies and under appreciate the human gluttony that is stripping the planet bare. Pollan wants us to return to the kitchen with our friends and family thereby gaining an appreciation for the food we eat.

“We are all of us tempted to read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music than we can possibly absorb, and the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind than yesterday’s newspaper,” – W.H. Auden

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