Resources

Please use the following resources to continue your inclusive design journey. You can learn more about me and my work (and my book!) at my website.

Websites

• Radical copyeditor - Suggestions for more inclusive writing
• Textio: Suggestions for more inclusive writing; especially for job postings.
• Humane by Design - A set of design patterns for more inclusive design
• Designer's code of ethics - Just what it sounds like, a set of standards/codes to work by as an ethical designer
• Ethical Decision Making - A framework for judging your decisions based on moral philosophy and ethics.
• The Never Again Pledge - Pledge by software engineers over the ethical use of data
• Tarot Cards of Tech - Tool for making ethical tech decisions
• 52 UX Cards to Discover Cognitive Biases - Tool for making ethical tech decisions
• Design justice principles - The core principles of the Design Justice Network
• Design for Diversity™ framework - An inclusive design framework from the cofounders of Project Inkblot
• Cards Against How Might We - Card game for helping get past blockers
• GitHub Blind Screening tool - A way to remove personally identifying information from GitHub profiles to facilitate anonymized hiring
• Center for Humane Technology - Center devoted to more humane tech
• Feminist research methods - List of resources to help with more feminist approaches to research
• Algorithmic Justice League - Group devoted to more ethical AI and data usage
• Equity Centered Community Design - Model for co-creating ethical outcomes
• A11y Rhymes - Twitter account with rhymes about accessibility
• Another Lens conscientious research tool - Series of questions/provocations to reveal bias in your design approach
• Cards for Humanity - Inclusive design card game
• Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources - List of resources that helps tell the story of design in a way that decenters whiteness
• Blendoor - Tool for anonymized hiring
• Spotify Ethics Assessment Worksheet - Ethical design worksheet to anticipate harmful outcomes
• How LinkedIn uses Red Team/Blue Team - Article about how LinkedIn uses the Red Team/Blue Team exercise to evaluate products
• Tech Workers Coalition - Organization dedicated to organizing tech labor
• Data & Society - Organization looking critically at the use of data its impact on society
• Ethics Litmus Tests - Card game for increasing ethics capacity and vocaulary
• Tech Risk Zones -
• By the people: A new series on participatory service design - Series of blog post telling the story of the City of Philadelphia’s use of participatory design in partnership with the Office of Homeless Services
• vTaiwan - Utterly innovative design approach to collaborative decision-making for public policy
• Inclusive UX writing - Spectrum - Spectrum (Adobe’s design system) inclusive UX writing guidelines
• New_ Public - Community for better digital public spaces
• Core values interview guide - 18F hiring guide with core values and bias check built in
• Me2B Alliance - Team evaluating digital products for safety
• Good Tech Wiki - Resource to discover orgs doing more ethical tech
• White supremacy culture characteristics - Things to watch out for in your corporate culture and how to fix them):
• QTBIPOC Design - Empowering LGBTQ+ BIPOC designers with education, mentorship, and networking opps
• Toward a More Just Library: Participatory Design with Native American Students - Fantastic co-creation case study around creating a library experience that “deserves Indigenous students”
• Indigenous Participatory Design Toolkit - MSU Library | Montana State University - Inspired by the previous link, tools for more inclusive and participatory design
• Critical Alphabet - Great set of questions to ask yourself about your work
• Bocoup - Inclusive Technology Consulting Firm
• Consentful Tech Curriculum - A curriculum for building and using technology consentfully
• Resources for Trauma-Informed UX Design - List of resources for trauma-informed UX design
• Understand Privacy-Enhancing Design and How it Can Be a Game Changer for Data Protection - Article about design approaches and choices that enhance privacy
• Self-Defined - “Self-Defined seeks to provide more inclusive, holistic, and fluid definitions to reflect the diverse perspectives of the modern world.”
• Accessible Social - “A free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, and everyday internet users who want to begin learning how to make their social media accessible for people with disabilities”
• OZeWAI Inclusive Research Workshops - Inclusive research workshops offered by The Australian Web Accessibility Initiative in partnership with ResearchOps.Community
• Queering Design System Thinking - Great article by Jon Voss about the possibilities in herent in applying queer theory to our current tech scene.

Books

• Technically Wrong by Sara Wacther-Boettcher
• Artificial Unintelligence by Meredith Broussard
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Arielly
• Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
• Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
• Design for Safety by Eva PenzyMoog
• The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici

Podcasts

• The Cognitive Bias Podcast - My podcast about different cognitive biases
• You Are Not So Smart - Longer form podcast about cognitive bias
• Tech for Good Live - Podcast about the ways tech is failing us today

Video

• Iris Bohnet | What Works: Gender Equality by Design | SXSW Interactive 2016 - foundational talk about the ways design influences behavior, especially in gender equality
• Inclusive Design 24 #id24 - YouTube - Library of talks from the ID24 conference on inclusive design

Slack

• We Evolve - Slack for equity minded tech folks
• Content + UX - Inclusion oriented Slack for UX designers and content strategists (and more)
• Simply Secure - International slack focused on open source
• Prosocial Design Network - Academic slanted slack for documenting and discussing design approaches for more inclusive and ethical outcomes
• Tech Workers Coalition - Slack devoted to discussing tech labor and organization