Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2026
Chapter 6 reiterates the responsibility of designers to account for legal aspects in their work and explores the need for better support to create more Accountable Designers. A research agenda for doing Accountable Design is presented through proposing eleven principles and a six-stage process. The process and principles foreground key questions, provide methods, and identify future research priorities for doing Accountable Design. This chapter then introduces specific tools and design methods that support doing Accountable Design in practice. There is discussion of the development and empirical evaluation of tools that translate between law, ethics and design such as ideation cards, board games, and design fictions. There is then an overall summary of the book.
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