Where are the ethics in design ethics?

Kayla J Heffernan
9 min readAug 4, 2019

There are so many blog posts, think pieces, tweets and conference or meet up talks popping up about “design ethics”. Many of them are great, but most of them aren’t actually about ethics at all. They are more “how not to be evil” guides which, while absolutely necessary, is not what ethics are.

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Kayla J Heffernan

Head of UX. Passionate about solving ambiguous problems with solutions that are accessible and inclusive. I write every couple of months about design.