Technology teams are often measured by what they can ship: performance, reliability, efficiency, adoption and scale. But the systems they build also shape privacy, dignity, access, autonomy, care and trust, among other important values. Their work asks a pair of deceptively simple questions: Who is affected by a technology? And what values are implicated by the choices teams make?

Value sensitive design pioneers Batya Friedman and David Hendry join the podcast to discuss their framework for integrating these human values into products. Leaning on a few examples and even a demonstration, Friedman and Hendry explain why it's important to go beyond simple performance metrics and broadly support human flourishing in product design.

About the guests:

Batya Friedman and David G. Hendry are leading researchers in value sensitive design. Their work brings together theory, method and practice to help designers, engineers, researchers, policy makers and technology leaders account for human values throughout the design process. Through concepts such as stakeholder analysis, value scenarios, envisioning cards and multi-lifespan thinking, they have helped establish a practical framework for designing technologies that account for dignity, privacy, care, justice, access and other important human values.

They are coauthors of Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination, which just released its second edition. You can find it here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798075/value-sensitive-design-second-edition-by-batya-friedman-and-david-g-hendry/

You can also find their envisioning cards here: https://vsdesign.org/toolkits/envisioningcards/

Hosted by David Carty

Produced by David Carty, Samsu Sallah and Joe Stella

Graphic design by Karley Searles

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