Spelling UX D-E-I: Strategies and Ideas for Centering Your UX Practice around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
How we engage users through usability testing, UX research and design and development has far reaching implications beyond business or social metrics of engagement, including political implications, personal implications, and, in many cases, very real consequences. Who we choose to gather our data from, do our research with, design with, and how we think about who our users are can have a profound impact on our designs — which can in turn have profound impacts on our users.
In this short talk, I’ll ask questions and share some ideas intended to provoke thoughts and inspiration for crafting an intentionally inclusive UX practice, and some examples of cases where centering diversity, equity, and inclusion into the UX design process might have prevented othering design decisions.
Key takeaways from the session:
Attendees will gain ideas and strategies to make their designs and products more welcoming and inclusive for a larger variety of folks. They’ll come away with a list of practical considerations, ideas to test and improve designs and products for inclusivity, and some big questions to hopefully help them think about their design process in a more DEI-centered way.
