Design and ethics

A recent article¹ by the creators of my favorite word processor resonates with me. I have long held the opinion that design includes ethics, in that the former like the latter is concerned with how things ought to be:

With the risk of sounding very personal, philosophy is a great school for designers. If designers studied philosophy they’d do a better job. Studying philosophy means learning to think systematically from different perspectives. What could be better to create useful products than learning to “think different”?