20 minute talk

“Du” Good: How UXers Can Help Change Our Companies & Communities

IAC 2021

April 30, 2021

Beginner, Intermediate

You’ve protested. You’ve made public statements to do better. After nearly a year, are you still asking, “What now?” Learn how companies can start to fulfill their promises today to create social changes and a more diverse UX design workforce. As UX practitioners we pride ourselves on human-centered design, but do we really practice what we preach when statistics continually reflect a staggering lack of diversity? And, does our work…

Clifton Simmons

The Words You Use Can Make People Confused… and Annoyed

IAC 2021

April 28, 2021

The use of complex words can make your users feel confused, frustrated, or offended – potentially so much so that they give up on a page or process. When we use words that are familiar and make people feel welcome, we are making that content usable by anyone! So, let’s spend more time thinking about how others will be affected by the words we use! We’ll examine several examples of…

Additional sessions

The Live Q&A for this talk will begin as soon as the livestream ends. In the event the livestream runs over, the Live Q&A and any follow-up conversation will continue inon the Discord channel for this talk.

Clair Rock

Sam Raddatz

Deconstructing Online Hate for Understanding with the Anti Defamation League (ADL)

IAC 2021

April 29, 2021

This session will share a project done in collaboration with the Anti Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society to visualize this ecosystem in a series of models and to discuss the questions we looked at, the questions we still have, the continued investigation and how we are using these models to stimulate conversations about policy, product design and moderation with industry, academia, law enforcement and civil society organizations. DQoJCQkJPGgzPkFkZGl0aW9uYWwgc2Vzc2lvbnM8L2gzPg0KCQkJCXtAYWRkaXRpb25hbF90aW1lc30NCgkJCSAg[/pod_if_field]

Erin Malone

Creating an Information Architecture for a Complex Range of User Groups

IAC 2021

April 30, 2021

Beginner

This year has accelerated the pace at which critical infrastructure has had to move to digital primary. Where these platforms had often been designed and tested for the primary user groups, they must now consider the needs of a much more representative set of audiences. Some of these audiences have mitigating issues that the IA needs to consider: a reluctance to use the platform; misinformation; or are facing a range…

Additional sessions

Arpy Dragffy

+Mujeres en UX Community: The Design and Co-Creation Process of the First Community of Women Working in UX in Latin America

2019 IA Conference

September 23, 2020

Beginner

The talk narrates the path of design and construction of the first female UX community in Latin America and how, after co-creation sessions, was defined and started working on 5 mvps that are now the core projects of the community. These are: the monthy meetings, a women in UX interview, monthy workshops, mentoring program and an only UX women Directory.