Oath designer: Ethical standards for professional design

The Oath of the Designer, developed by UX Designers Samantha Demps and Chiara Taylor, aimed at forming ethical standards for the profession of designer. The authors emphasize that with the spread of design and increasing the impact of designers on society, it is necessary to have a flexible set of rules, so that the design is only benefit.

🚀 Demps and Taylor believe that designers who create experience, environment, products and systems for millions of people should recognize their responsibility to those for whom they work.

💡 From all the history of creative professions, many tried to create a set of rules for regulating moral principles in their field, in particular in the early XX century, when order and rationality were considered an antithesis of chaos of the First World War.

• 📌 The oath of a designer is a personal promise of every designer who gives it.
• 📌 The oath requires respect for knowledge of human nature that have been selected by previous designers and seeks to apply this knowledge for the benefit of people.
• 📌 Every designer should choose what problems to work on, with the greatest attention, without trying to play God.