White Hat Design Patterns
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Method Overview
White hat design is a guidebook of principles and steps designed to help industry individuals and teams generate designs from a new perspective centered around ethical design principles and practices.
Framework of ethics used:
virtue
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
Practices and Principles (Falbe, 2018) –
- Transition to a human-centered design approach
- Involve all team members in watching videos from user testing sessions.
- Ask for actual, living portraits of the people you serve.
- Insist on continuous testing.
- Always ask “why?”
- Ethical design best practices (Falbe, 2018) –
- Use data to improve the human experience.
- Advertising without tracking.
- Always, always prioritize usability.
- Don’t ask for more than you need.
- Be transparent.
Further Reading
Trine Falbe, Ethical Design: The Practical Getting-Started Guide
Citation
Falbe, T. (2018, March 16). Ethical Design: The Practical Getting-Started Guide [web log]. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/ethical-design-practical-getting-started-guide/.
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