Sharon Lindberg

I am a designer and researcher working at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden.

I do qualitative and participatory research, focusing on ethics in digital design practice. I am interested in co-designing design ethics with practitioners. In addition to research, I also teach human-computer interaction (HCI), for example ethics in interaction design, prototyping, and visual design in UX design.

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Other materials

In my research I strive to produce concrete and practice-led outputs for cultivating ethics in practice. These are two examples of such research outputs.
  • The Design Ethics Workshop This workshop provides a space and structure for exploring and becoming ethical together. By doing this, participants can create common visions of what ethically responsible design means and how to get there. The workshop is intended to be simple and easily adaptable, to fit with design practice, to foster curiosity and collaboration around ethics, and to kick-start the cultivation of more ethical design based on matters that participants themselves understand and care about.
  • Sparking Conversations – a design brief for cultivating ethics in design Design briefs are commonly used in design practice by groups/teams, collaboratively unpacking the problem and solution space. This brief is thus a familiar format but in an unfamiliar realm – the realm of ethics. It asks the question “How might we raise awareness of ethically responsible design?”

Get in touch

Sharon Lindberg, PhD

I am open for research collaborations, guest lecturing, or just a coffee and a chat! sharon@dsv.su.se

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