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How do you use the Ethics Navigator and the knowledge cards?

The Ethics Navigator is a checklist that helps you ask
ethical questions about your digital solutions and designs.
You can use it to quickly get answers to ethical questions,
but it can also be included as a working tool in workshops
or design courses where you want to ensure that ethics
are involved in the development of the digital solution.
In the middle of the Ethics Navigator, you will find the five
basic principles of responsible and ethical digital design.
You should memorize them and always keep them in mind
when working with digital solutions. All five principles are
explained by an in-depth knowledge card.
In the outer ring of the Ethics Navigator, you will find 22
ethical questions which are divided into the three catego-
ries of data, automation, and behavioral design. The ques-
tions try to challenge you to think ethics and responsibility
into your digital designs. It is far from all the questions
that will be relevant to your solution, but there will almost
always be at least a few questions that can challenge you
and set thoughts in motion. For each of the 22 questions,
you will find an associated knowledge card, which ela-
borates on the meaning of the question, which provides
concrete design recommendations, and which describes a
good and a bad example from the real world.

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