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    Design Constraints of Ethics

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    Design ethics concerns the moral behavior and responsible choices of designers. It guides how designers work with clients, colleagues, and end users. There are four ethical dimensions of design: (1) a designer's character and personal values, (2) integrity in the design process, (3) ensuring product integrity in terms of safety, sustainability, and serving the public good, and (4) considering how design can best serve human purposes in a social context. Ethical considerations have always played a role in design but scientific and technological development has deepened awareness of its ethical dimensions.

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    Design Constraints of Ethics

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    Design ethics concerns the moral behavior and responsible choices of designers. It guides how designers work with clients, colleagues, and end users. There are four ethical dimensions of design: (1) a designer's character and personal values, (2) integrity in the design process, (3) ensuring product integrity in terms of safety, sustainability, and serving the public good, and (4) considering how design can best serve human purposes in a social context. Ethical considerations have always played a role in design but scientific and technological development has deepened awareness of its ethical dimensions.

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    Design procedure for ethics as a design constraint.

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    Design ethics concerns the moral behavior and responsible choices of designers. It guides how designers work with clients, colleagues, and end users. There are four ethical dimensions of design: (1) a designer's character and personal values, (2) integrity in the design process, (3) ensuring product integrity in terms of safety, sustainability, and serving the public good, and (4) considering how design can best serve human purposes in a social context. Ethical considerations have always played a role in design but scientific and technological development has deepened awareness of its ethical dimensions.

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    Design ethics concerns the moral behavior and responsible choices of designers. It guides how designers work with clients, colleagues, and end users. There are four ethical dimensions of design: (1) a designer's character and personal values, (2) integrity in the design process, (3) ensuring product integrity in terms of safety, sustainability, and serving the public good, and (4) considering how design can best serve human purposes in a social context. Ethical considerations have always played a role in design but scientific and technological development has deepened awareness of its ethical dimensions.

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    DESIGN ETHICS

    Design ethics concerns moral behaviour and responsible choices in the practice of design. It
    guides how designers work with clients, colleagues, and the end users of products, how they
    conduct the design process, how they determine the features of products, and how they assess the
    ethical significance or moral worth of the products that result from the activity of designing.
    Ethical considerations have always played a role in design thinking, but the development of
    scientific knowledge and technology has deepened awareness of the ethical dimensions of
    design.

    Design is the human power of conceiving, planning, and bringing to reality all of the
    products that serve human beings in the accomplishment of their individual and
    collective purposes. There are four ethical dimensions represented in this definition,
    each identifying an area of ethical issues and potential moral conflict that often
    complicates the activity of designing but also enhances the value of the designer's
    work.

    Character and Personal Values


    The first ethical dimension of design arises from the human power or ability to design. One may
    reasonably argue that design itself is morally neutral because the art is only an instrument of human
    action. However designers are not morally neutral. They possess values and preferences, beliefs about
    what is good and bad for human beings, and an array of intellectual and moral virtues or vices that
    constitute personal character

    Integrity of Performance
    A second ethical dimension arises from the activity of conceiving, planning, and bringing products to
    reality. These activities are the immediate goal or purpose of design. The standard of performance
    demonstrates fidelity to the art of design itself and is a matter of personal and professional integrity.

    Product Integrity
    A third ethical dimension, product integrity, arises from the nature of the products created through the
    art of design.
    Product integrity should be distinguished from the end purpose or worth of
    products. It is the synthesis of form and materials by which one judges a product to
    be well or poorly designed. There are specific ethical issues of product integrity for
    each kind of design (engineering, communication, industrial, and architectural
    design), but in general the issues concern safety and reliability, compliance with laws
    and regulatory codes, sustainability in its various aspects, and service to the public
    good.

    Ethical Standards and the Ultimate Purpose of Design


    A fourth ethical dimension of design arises from the service nature of the design arts, and presents some
    of the most difficult ethical issues designers face. The design arts are fundamentally a practical service to
    human beings in the accomplishment of individual and collective purposes. That is, the end purpose of
    design is to help other people accomplish their own purposes. This is where the personal character and
    morality of the individual designer, as well as the other ethical dimensions of design, are inevitably
    placed in a larger social, political, religious, and philosophical context.

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