Always Design Responsibly – Speech from Slush14
At Slush 2014, I spoke about how the scale and speed of technological innovation impact us working with, designing and creating innovative products. Here is the video of that speech.
Since then, I've kept thinking about measurable, quantifiable ways to address the challenge of responsibility in product design and business model design. It is, in a way, Corporate Social Responsibility, but something that the most studied and documented models of CSR do not reflect very well. What I'm interested in are the operational challenges of responsibility: how we ensure that we are creating the most good, and how that good can be measured and modeled already in the design phase of a product or a business.
I had more time to go into the topic at DataWeek 2014. The video from that speech is below.
There, I take a brief look at three models of Social Responsibility (Philanthropy, Innovation in CSR, and Integration of CSR), in the special context of data and data visualization, followed with examples. As I have the time, I'll keep researching and generalizing this for the broader case of technology startups.
If you have ideas about this, or can think of resources or research I should look into, do let me know.
