It seems that the ethical issues that many products have stem from the lack diversity in the steps of the design process. Without people who could understand why a particular product design might not be ideal for some minorities, there is no one to account for that in the design. For instance, in the case […]

Let’s face it. Nobody wants to fly. The seats are always cramped, the circulated air invariably makes you sick, and the TSA is sure to take every excuse to invade privacy. Some of this can be avoided if you drop a couple thousand dollars on first class but flying in general sucks. This was not […]

The issue of whether the use of body scanners in airport security is ethical to transgender and androgynous-looking passengers has arisen in recent years because security workers often misgender them, causing the scanners to go off and the passenger to go through additional inspection. The body scanners themselves are not unethical; they simply scan the […]

In the TSA article, the assumption of LGBTQ people’s gender was summarized and how it was a new upcoming problem in modern society as awareness for LGBTQ has risen in modern days. While it’s not a necessarily a fault in technology, since the blame could be shifted onto the individual TSA agents who made the […]

I never really thought about ethics in design until reading the three articles/ webpages that we were assigned. However the soap detector example in the “What are ethics in design?” article resounded heavily with me as I often encounter the same problem of the soap dispenser or hand dryer not detecting my hand. I never […]

Unfortunately, as a result of events from the past, specifically the attack on the World Trade Center, our country needs to have very strict guidelines to ensure the safety of travelers. I believe that this is an important that the Transportation Security Administration should take the precautions necessary to ensure all of our safety, even […]

For most folks, going through airport security consists of getting their bags scanned and going through a quick screening for explosives and they’re set to travel (as long as they did not carry any explosives). However, for transgender passengers, the experience is very different. When transgender passengers get screened for explosives, they often set the […]

The issues the TSA has with treating transgender or androgynous individuals is very related to the “Ethics in Design” article.  In the article, it is said that an automatic soap dispenser has difficulty recognizing a black person’s hand beneath it because the design was not tested on black users, nor where there black people on […]