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