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<title>Designing Ethical Experiences: Understanding Juicy Rationalizations</title>
<shortdesc>Designers rationalize their choices just as much as everyone else. But we also play a unique role in shaping the human world by creating the expressive and functional tools many people use in their daily lives. Our decisions about what is and is not ethical directly impact the lives of a tremendous number of people we will never know. Better understanding of the choices we make as designers can help us create more ethical user experiences for ourselves and for everyone.</shortdesc>
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<p>Designers rationalize their choices just as much as everyone else. But we also play a unique role in shaping the human world by creating the expressive and functional tools many people use in their daily lives. Our decisions about what is and is not ethical directly impact the lives of a tremendous number of people we will never know. Better understanding of the choices we make as designers can help us create more ethical user experiences for ourselves and for everyone.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/User-Experience/Ethics">All works in 'Articles &gt; User-Experience &gt; Ethics'</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles">All works in 'Articles'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/User-Experience">'User Experience'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Ethics">'Ethics'</a></li>
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