Personal ethics refer to behavioral and cultural patterns within the design practice. Participants are encouraged to regularly engage in open and heart-felt self-and-peer reflection on their ethical practice. - **Good faith collaboration** - Strong Adherence: Inquiring others how your project interfaces with theirs - Weak Adherence: Offering to include others in your project - Strong Violation: Demanding a member conform to your approach - Weak Violation: Subtly manipulating collaborators - **Honesty** - Strong Adherence: Up front disclosure of all relevant information - Weak Adherence: Partial disclosure of information when requested - Strong Violation: Hiding relevant information - Weak Violation: Misrepresenting or manipulating information for personal interest - **Feedback and accountability** - Strong Adherence: Inquiring the impact of your actions, asking others what you could have done better - Weak Adherence: Reluctantly agreeing to hear feedback from others - Strong Violation: Reacting angrily to feedback when shared - Weak Violation: Avoiding feedback and accountability - **Efficacy over ego** - Strong Adherence: Shelving all or part of a project if another member is providing the same function with better results or more efficiently - Weak Adherence: Merging efforts for the same desired outcome - Strong Violation: Pushing a less effective or less developed project to maintain control - Weak Violation: Running identical projects in parallel to maintain control - **Inclusion & Listening** - Strong Adherence: Actively engaging a wide range of members to seek their perspective - Weak Adherence: Remaining open to others adding their perspective - Strong Violation: Excluding competent members because of differences of perspective - Weak Violation: Hiding a project from some members