ChecklistCraft conventionIntermediate
Design Ethics Checklist
Whether the design serves the user's interest, including where that now overlaps with legal obligation.
Definition
A review pass for consent, pricing, subscriptions, persuasion and data collection, covering both ethical and increasingly regulatory ground.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
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Consent and defaults
0/4Honest presentation
0/4Control and exit
0/3Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Applies when you are designing
Practical example
A worked decision where this was the deciding factor.
- Designing a Cancellation FlowCase study
What this checks
The guidance behind the items in this list.
- Anchoring BiasCognitive bias
- Default EffectCognitive bias
- Framing EffectCognitive bias
- Deceptive PatternsPrinciple
- Social ProofPsychology
- Permission RequestsUX writing
Short definition
The one-paragraph version, for when that is all you need.
- ConsentTerm
- Data MinimisationTerm
- Deceptive PatternTerm