Empower your
Collaboration

Empower your
Collaboration

to navigate the intersection of design and ethics

to navigate the intersection of design and ethics

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a card image written with Human Autonomy
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cards of ethical values and workshop picture
a card of bias awareness
cards of ethical values and workshop picture
a card of bias awareness

And Essential Resource for Ethical Service Design Processes

Essential Resource for Ethical Service Design Processes

Essential Resource for Ethical Service Design Processes

Discover a comprehensive collection of tools and practices designed to empower your team in addressing the ethical dimensions of your design processes. With Unpack, you can navigate the complex landscape of design and ethics, fostering a shared understanding and collaboration among your team members.

From exploring diverse ethical perspectives to envisioning future impacts, Unpack equips you with the means to create ethical and impactful solutions. Take the first step towards unlocking ethical design with Unpack Toolkit.

Discover a comprehensive collection of tools and practices designed to empower your team in addressing the ethical dimensions of your design processes. With Unpack, you can navigate the complex landscape of design and ethics, fostering a shared understanding and collaboration among your team members.

From exploring diverse ethical perspectives to envisioning future impacts, Unpack equips you with the means to create ethical and impactful solutions. Take the first step towards unlocking ethical design with Unpack Toolkit.

Discover a comprehensive collection of tools and practices designed to empower your team in addressing the ethical dimensions of your design processes. With Unpack, you can navigate the complex landscape of design and ethics, fostering a shared understanding and collaboration among your team members.

From exploring diverse ethical perspectives to envisioning future impacts, Unpack equips you with the means to create ethical and impactful solutions. Take the first step towards unlocking ethical design with Unpack Toolkit.

Integrating Today's Ethics with Five Ethical Lenses

Integrating Today's Ethics with Five Ethical Lenses

Integrating Today's Ethics with Five Ethical Lenses

Theoretical and practical ethics are easily overlooked. Of course, they often sound abstract, too broad, blurry, and uncertain to us in terms of the meaning of ethics, ethical thinking, actions, and decisions.

Ethics is a core human value that everyone possesses. However, there is no simple universal guideline to follow, as ethics evolves and ethical values also change over time.

Certain ethical weight and focus might be different and diverse for each person based on their culture, context, position, and biases.

Theoretical and practical ethics are easily overlooked. Of course, they often sound abstract, too broad, blurry, and uncertain to us in terms of the meaning of ethics, ethical thinking, actions, and decisions. Ethics is a core human value that everyone possesses. However, there is no simple universal guideline to follow, as ethics evolves and ethical values also change over time. Certain ethical weight and focus might be different and diverse for each person based on their culture, context, position, and biases.

Theoretical and practical ethics are easily overlooked. Of course, they often sound abstract, too broad, blurry, and uncertain to us in terms of the meaning of ethics, ethical thinking, actions, and decisions.

Ethics is a core human value that everyone possesses. However, there is no simple universal guideline to follow, as ethics evolves and ethical values also change over time.

Certain ethical weight and focus might be different and diverse for each person based on their culture, context, position, and biases.

defined framework - a spectrum of ethical values
defined framework - a spectrum of ethical values
defined framework - a spectrum of ethical values

Transform Uncertain Ethical Values into Collaborative Ethical Design Practices for Shared Understanding

Transform Uncertain Ethical Values into Collaborative Ethical Design Practices for Shared Understanding

Transform Uncertain Ethical Values into Collaborative Ethical Design Practices for Shared Understanding

Through multiple iterations of participatory workshops, the Unpack toolkit has demonstrated its positive impact on ethical design practices and its ability to foster changes in participants' mindsets and interests towards ethical design thinking and implementation.

Through multiple iterations of participatory workshops, the Unpack toolkit has demonstrated its positive impact on ethical design practices and its ability to foster changes in participants' mindsets and interests towards ethical design thinking and implementation.

Through multiple iterations of participatory workshops, the Unpack toolkit has demonstrated its positive impact on ethical design practices and its ability to foster changes in participants' mindsets and interests towards ethical design thinking and implementation.

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Unpack a Set of
Ethical Design Practices

Unpack a Set of Ethical Design Practices

The toolkit comprises two decks of Unpack cards: Value Thinking and Future Making. Additionally, it includes four sets of workshop practice sheets that interplay with the card decks.

The toolkit comprises two decks of Unpack cards: Value Thinking and Future Making. Additionally, it includes four sets of workshop practice sheets that interplay with the card decks.

The toolkit comprises two decks of Unpack cards: Value Thinking and Future Making. Additionally, it includes four sets of workshop practice sheets that interplay with the card decks.

two cards decks - value thinking cards and future making cards
two cards decks - value thinking cards and future making cards
two cards decks - value thinking cards and future making cards

Two Decks of Unpack Cards

Two Decks of Unpack Cards

Two Decks of Unpack Cards

help the actors to weigh what ethical values can be put in the centre of the service and to help them envision speculative ethical or unethical impacts that could occur in the future of the data-driven services.

help the actors to weigh what ethical values can be put in the centre of the service and to help them envision speculative ethical or unethical impacts that could occur in the future of the data-driven services.

help the actors to weigh what ethical values can be put in the centre of the service and to help them envision speculative ethical or unethical impacts that could occur in the future of the data-driven services.

  1. Oh My Goodness

  1. Oh My Goodness

  1. Oh My Goodness

establishes shared awareness as an initial step and trains ethical skills through group discussions while reviewing the Value Thinking cards.

establishes shared awareness as an initial step and trains ethical skills through group discussions while reviewing the Value Thinking cards.

establishes shared awareness as an initial step and trains ethical skills through group discussions while reviewing the Value Thinking cards.

  1. Mapping (Un)seen Value Spectrum

  1. Mapping (Un)seen Value Spectrum

  1. Mapping (Un)seen Value Spectrum

seeks to align the values of users, stakeholders, and marginalised groups with ethical principles. It helps identify unintended gaps and missing alignments, drawing the systemic value mapping in a collaborative practice.

seeks to align the values of users, stakeholders, and marginalised groups with ethical principles. It helps identify unintended gaps and missing alignments, drawing the systemic value mapping in a collaborative practice.

seeks to align the values of users, stakeholders, and marginalised groups with ethical principles. It helps identify unintended gaps and missing alignments, drawing the systemic value mapping in a collaborative practice.

  1. Mapping User + Data Journey

  1. Mapping User + Data Journey

  1. Mapping User + Data Journey

assists in mapping a user journey based on their capabilities and the specific goals they need to achieve with your product/service while addressing sensitive data concerns.

assists in mapping a user journey based on their capabilities and the specific goals they need to achieve with your product/service while addressing sensitive data concerns.

assists in mapping a user journey based on their capabilities and the specific goals they need to achieve with your product/service while addressing sensitive data concerns.

  1. Envisioning Speculative Impacts

  1. Envisioning Speculative Impacts

  1. Envisioning Speculative Impacts

encourages you and your team to imagine future speculative impacts, both intended and unintended, using the Future Making Cards.


encourages you and your team to imagine future speculative impacts, both intended and unintended, using the Future Making Cards.

encourages you and your team to imagine future speculative impacts, both intended and unintended, using the Future Making Cards.


mockup for a workshop called envisioning speculative impacts
mockup for a workshop called envisioning speculative impacts
mockup for a workshop called envisioning speculative impacts

Download the Toolkits

Download the Toolkits

Download the Toolkits

The toolkit is a free open source material created for non-profit purposes. By providing your email, and the answer on the form, you can support the further development of the Unpack toolkits.

The toolkit is a free open source material created for non-profit purposes. By providing your email, and the answer on the form, you can support the further development of the Unpack toolkits.

The toolkit is a free open source material created for non-profit purposes. By providing your email, and the answer on the form, you can support the further development of the Unpack toolkits.

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