We’ve heard it again and again: the tech industry desperately needs an ethical reinvention. But what does that look like? Join Kat Zhou, creator of the <Design Ethically> project, as she dives into how she created an ethical design framework for product teams and the lessons she learned from piloting her methodology at an enterprise level with IBM.
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