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
0/3Local chart
CHK·010 · Region IX · Grid A6
This entry and the entries it is stated to connect with. Each line is labelled with what the connection means.
Continue 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·008 · Case study
What this checks
The guidance behind the items in this list.
- Anchoring BiasBIAS·001 · Cognitive bias
- Default EffectBIAS·004 · Cognitive bias
- Framing EffectBIAS·003 · Cognitive bias
- Deceptive PatternsPRIN·011 · Principle
- Social ProofPSY·006 · Psychology
- Permission RequestsWRT·014 · UX writing
Short definition
The one-paragraph version, for when that is all you need.
- ConsentTERM·107 · Term
- Data MinimisationTERM·108 · Term
- Deceptive PatternTERM·106 · Term