Victor Papanek | Chicago Review Press, 2005 | Book
'There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few of them.' Thus starts this classic on the ethics of industrial design, originally published in 1971.
Peter-Paul Verbeek | University of Chicago Press, 2011 | Book
Philosophy of technology can be very heady reading, but Verbeek does a good job of leading you through some main thoughts about the ethics of (designing) things.
Hope May | Bloomsbury Academic, 2011 | Book
In this slim volume, Hope May connects Aristotle’s virtue ethics to contemporary positive psychology on well-being and self-determination. It may not represent the canonical reading of what Aristotle actually said, but it's an inspiring read nonetheless.
Nathan Shedroff | Rosenfeld Media, 2009 | Book
Shedroff focuses on sustainability as one aspect of ethical design, but his book is currently still the exhaustive source on that aspect.
Sebastian Deterding | in Rethinking Gamification, Mathias Fuchs et al. (Editors), Meson Press, 2014 | Article
If you want an expanded version of the thoughts in my talk, the best thing to read is this little text by me.