In our more and more advanced world, moral issues are a difficult however important facet of design considering and decision-making. The Spotify Ethics Guild created this ethics evaluation as a self-service useful resource for groups across the firm to analyze moral questions related to their work. We hope anybody, together with these new to this matter, can use it to floor necessary issues when designing a services or products. Click above to obtain.
For background on how this mission received began, we wish to share some historical past behind Spotify’s Ethics Guild — a volunteer group that creates sources and facilitates workshops to assist make moral issues extra concrete.Â
Lu Han: I began the guild in 2018 whereas designing for Ad Experience, a group of considerate individuals centered on making Spotify’s advert expertise extra user-friendly. After doing a little analysis on examples of moral trade-offs within the wild and diving into some insightful writing on the subject from of us like Cathy O’Neil, Joy Buolamwini, and Tristan Harris, I began to think about how we’d apply these concepts of moral product improvement in my very own group.
Ethics is a lofty matter — millennia-old and topic to infinite theorizing and debate. That mentioned, we can take motion by — on the very least  — recognizing and avoiding potential hurt. We developed the ethics evaluation with the intention of placing this fundamental precept into follow.
This evaluation has been our labor of affection, and is on the coronary heart of the guild’s work with varied groups at Spotify. We’ve additionally taken it on the street to conferences like Grace Hopper and Interaction 19. Each time we’ve facilitated a workshop, we’ve been moved and impressed by the considerate conversations that come out of merely asking the precise questions. We hope it helps push the dialog on ethics ahead to your group, too.
Collaborators: Christopher Carpita, Eric Madar, Izzy Zelichenko, Katherine Topping, Masha Westerlund, Lu Han, Mat Budelman, Sara Aboulafia, Scott Sheffield, Shmo Chuang