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Design Manifesto

Programme
Communication & Multimedia Design
Year
2021
Team
Naomi Hendricks & Cesar van Hardeveld
Topics
Data, bias & responsible design
Disciplines
Ethics · Research

Amsterdam

Open to new work

Manifesto cover with a robot hand reaching for a human hand

A manifesto with rules for designing responsibly, written week by week from books, documentaries and lectures.

Approach

Each week Naomi and I studied a source, such as the work of philosopher Peter-Paul Verbeek or the documentaries The Great Hack and Coded Bias. From each source we each wrote a rule, with our reasoning.

Rules

A few of them: when designing new technology, ask “how?” instead of answering yes or no. Make users aware of the data you collect, and never sell it. Stay aware of your own bias while you design.

The same questions came back in my master, where I designed an AI system for school students under the EU AI Act.

Manifesto

The first pages of the manifesto (in Dutch). Tap a page to read it.

Design manifesto, page 1

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