By Sai Shruthi Chivukula and Colin Gray

Are you ready to design for good?

Join the growing movement of designers, technologists, and organizations embracing ethical design principles to drive meaningful change. This essential resource introduces practical methods and frameworks that foster ethical awareness, action, and reflection throughout the design process. These supports appear in this book in varied forms, including methods, theoretical frameworks, conceptual frameworks, and principles.

Discover every phase of the design process as this volume leads you through strategies that merge creativity with responsibility. You'll learn how to conduct user research with empathy and integrity, scope projects by setting goals that reflect ethical values, and spark ideas rooted in social responsibility. You’ll also find practical approaches to testing and evaluation that emphasize fairness and transparency, as well as guidance on launching products that place people and the planet at the forefront.

Explore diverse, accessible methods that weave ethics into everyday workflows—covering critical topics like feminist design, activism, privacy and security, legal policy, and governance.

Whether you’re a designer, engineer, manager, or student, Universal Methods of Ethical Design is your essential reference for building socially responsible and impactful designs.

Designed by Colin M. Gray

Published by Rockport Publishers, 2025

Hardcover, 224 pages, full color offset, 8.75 × 10.25 inches

978-0-76-039308-6