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Applying systems thinking to our design with Sheryl Cababa

Systems of Harm

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How to Consider Unintended Consequences in Your Work

The chat GPT thing is so interesting and so fresh in my mind at the moment, especially when we're talking about unintended consequences. And it really concerns me because I say often that design systems are not just harmless scaling machines. They're not neutral. It's what we put into them. So you could take something like, Oh, integrating GPT into our design system or integrating this into any, anything we're designing and just sort of like play out scenarios from like the second or third degree to see how they might play out positive or negative. This can be used to interrogate just what the radiating effects might be for anything that you're working on.

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