Ethical Design Masterclass

Trine Falbe

Your instructor: Trine Falbe

Workshop includes:

🔖 Examples to take away
🗣 Interactive sessions
📺 Workshop recordings
🎤 Dedicated Q&A time
🏅 Smashing Certificate

Unfortunately, this workshop is fully sold out! But you can join the waiting list in case a ticket becomes available:

Workshop, 5×2h + Q&A • Tue & Wed, March 1–16 2022
09:00 – 11:30 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰

In this workshop you’ll learn what ethical design entails, how to advocate for it in your organisation (basically “convince your boss!”) and last, but not least, the practical framework and toolset that enables you to apply ethical design in your work.

Your workshop teacher is Trine Falbe, specialist in ethical design and innovation. She’s written two books in this field, White Hat UX and The Ethical Design Handbook. You’ll also have a room full of fellow professionals who will give and receive feedback along with Trine. We’re here to lift each other up and share.

For those interested, the workshop offers opportunity to work with your own ethical design challenge. It could be a product, project or an organisational challenge you’re in. Bring it, and we’ll help you tackle it! If you don’t have a challenge to bring, don’t worry. The workshop will scope a homework case for those who have the desire to work practically with ethical design between the workshop days.

Who Is This For?

UX designers, product managers, developers and UI designers who have the ambition to make more ethical digital products. Also highly recommended for managers who want to incorporate ethical design in the organisation and business.

In this workshop, we’ll explore

You will learn all the things you need to know to make positive design changes, one step at a time. We’ll be working with the following topics:

Selling ethical design — there’s no point in having the best idea or intention, if you can’t convince others. We’ll look at ways to argue for ethical design without using the usual pathos-approach that is often heard around ethical design.

Enabling ethical design — now that we’ve convinced others to start on the “ethical design journey”, we need to set the foundation to make it happen. We’ll look at how to set the guidelines, how to work together in our teams and how to hold ourselves up to our own promises.

Ethical UX and UI design — now that we’re working in the same direction, we will look at the best practices and how we can remove the not-so-ethical elements and flows in our products.

The business of ethical design — we’re not just in it because it feels better. To sustain an ethical design strategy, we’ll discuss how to incorporate ethical design principles into the business.

At the end of the workshop, you are able to:

Convince your organisation to implement ethical design practices
Work responsibly with innovation and when evaluating decisions and products
Systematically identify ethical design challenges and opportunities in the products and processes you work with
Design a variety of UI patterns ethics first, without compromising the business objectives
Design UX flows for onboarding, off boarding and checkout with ethical design in mind
Measure on ethical design
Plan for systematic improvements of products and processes

About Trine Falbe

Trine has worked with UX for 20 years. She is dedicated to ethical design and innovation, and currently works as Head of Innovation at Smart Academy in Denmark, alongside building digital products as an entrepreneur. She’s written two books: White Hat UX (2017) and The Ethical Design Handbook (2020).

Time & Schedule

This workshop is split over five days. Our virtual doors open at 8:45, we start at 9 AM PT.

The workshop sessions will run on the following days:

Tue, March 1, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Wed, March 2, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Tue, March 8, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Wed, March 9, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Wed, March 16, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (17:00 – 19:30 CET)