Monique Bettes
Monique Bettes is a Senior Experience Designer with seven years of practice across UX Design and Research within fintech, government, and enterprise spaces.
Monique Bettes is a Senior Experience Designer with seven years of practice across UX Design and Research within fintech, government, and enterprise spaces. Her approach to design follows a grounding in formal philosophical training, specialising in regulatory-adjacent initiatives, vulnerable customer and accessibility-led design. She served on the editorial board of STANCE Philosophy Journal, reviewing work on the philosophy of AI in 2016; in 2018, her UNSW Honours thesis examined the human-technology relationship, with a focus on moral responsibility and agentic AI.
In recent years, she’s known for speaking and writing on the intersection between design and philosophy, where the most consequential design work is not better interfaces, but instead better questions and designing for purpose. Her current focus is building applied ethics frameworks to enable human-centred decisions, especially with the increase of AI-embedded contexts. She was named a Top 100 Global Mentor by ADPList in 2025.
Monique Bettes is a Senior Experience Designer with seven years of practice across UX Design and Research within fintech, government, and enterprise spaces. Her approach to design follows a grounding in formal philosophical training, specialising in regulatory-adjacent initiatives, vulnerable customer and accessibility-led design. She served on the editorial board of STANCE Philosophy Journal, reviewing work on the philosophy of AI in 2016; in 2018, her UNSW Honours thesis examined the human-technology relationship, with a focus on moral responsibility and agentic AI.
In recent years, she’s known for speaking and writing on the intersection between design and philosophy, where the most consequential design work is not better interfaces, but instead better questions and designing for purpose. Her current focus is building applied ethics frameworks to enable human-centred decisions, especially with the increase of AI-embedded contexts. She was named a Top 100 Global Mentor by ADPList in 2025.
