Dilemma Postcards: Ethics Tools

‘‘Dilemma Postcards’’ are communicative tools that will allow pactitioners to easily express, share, and resolve the dilemmas they face in their everyday practice through stories.

According to the A.E.I.O.yoU model (part of a bigger toolkit), this activity seeks to describe and create awareness of ethical dilemmas and tensions faced by practitioners (Individual, yoU), as they perceive others (O) and during interactions (I) among the practitioners, at the practitioner level.

STEPS

• Familiarize yourself with Ethical Dilemmas/Tensions cards (on the other sheet/board).

• Identify Ethical Dilemma/Tensions based on your everyday work. You can also add your own ethical dilemmas to the list.

  • You can use Dilemma/Tensions Categorization worksheet to do the same: Filter Ethical Tensions: Ethics Tool

• Recollect a situation in your everyday practice where you might have faced, might face, and/or facing thesedilemmas or tensions.

• Write to share your story. Think about who you want to share this with- CEO, teammate, manager, novice practitioners, etc. You can write it anonymously per choice.

• Post the card to “Whomsoever concerned”. You can also make this a team practice to position a Dilemma Post-Box and refer to what is happening in your teams to build ethical products.

Tools in the whole toolkit: 

• Trace the Ethical Complexity (“I want to see my ethical position within my organization map.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/trace-the-ethical-complexity-ethics-tool/

• Ethical Tension Cards (“I want to filter ethical tensions I have been facing in my everyday design work.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/filter-ethical-tensions-ethics-tool/

• Dilemma Postcards (“I want to share my story around some ethical dilemmas I faced in my workplace.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/dilemma-postcards-ethics-tools/

• Methods-Resonance Heuristics (“I want to evaluate a method I want to use to build ethical design products.”): https://miro.com/miroverse/method-resonance-heurisitics-ethics-tool/