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Both conferences included 35 speakers and panelists, as well as 13 workshops. All talks and panels are available to watch.
The conference organiser discusses why we put the conference together, and where we see the field going.
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Use content design to make your research content more inclusive and accessible. By increasing accessibility, we increase participation. This contributes to ethical and equitable research.
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"Nothing about us without us”: to design truly accessible products, the voices of people with disabilities must be heard in every aspect of user research and design. In this talk, Samuel Proulx, Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, will discuss how best to make these voices heard. We will show some of the ways inclusive design is done well, and some of the ways it goes wrong.
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In this talk, we'll explore ways to shift co-creation workshops towards equity.
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For 500 years publishing has been designed for a general audience, often missing specific considerations for people with varied vision. For this talk, I’d like to discuss the current state of research on font design for low vision.
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Hear about how two user researchers put users at the centre of their planning, recruitment & research design to curate a sense of psychological safety for participants and the researchers.
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Design outcomes informed by trauma-informed practices can shift power dynamics in the research phase and yield outcomes that afford space for continuous consent building and relational processes in support of diverse user needs.
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Our panel discussion brings together leaders within inclusive design. Learn about their strategies towards advocating for inclusion followed by participants asking questions as well.
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Women of colour face unique barriers in the workplace due to the rigidity of unjust systems. We need to redesign the state of work and create inclusive spaces and environments that support their needs and goals.
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As a UX Researcher poorly designed UX is hard not to notice. As a disabled user, it is a daily struggle. We'll talk about the impacts of inaccessible design and how you can begin today to make digital spaces inclusive.
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Simone Wright created Parting The Roots after experiencing a misguided Diversity and Inclusion training that misinformed employees about Black hair. Now, Simone is working to ensure that people understand these nuances because whether you curl it or straighten it, dye it or braid it, hair is a very personal and important part of ones identity. For some, it is their crowning glory and others, a constant battle.
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When carrying out research, how do we capture and design for emotional, sometimes painful, experiences? This talk explores a case study of a respectful, inclusive approach for creating safe spaces within human-centred design when working with people with chronic health conditions.
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India is not a diabetic friendly society, there is a lot of taboo especially around Type 1 Diabetes. We are designing for supporting the mothers who are battling this taboo amongst other things to manage the condition on their kids behalf.
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A story about how I helped make the national booking service for COVID-19 vaccination appointments inclusive for people of any sex or gender.
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By understanding research through a participant’s perspective, we can design better experiences while delivering worthwhile findings. At the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), we’ve done the work to understand what it’s like to participate in our research. Through this talk, I’ll showcase how we mapped our participant experience and its impact on the way we do research now.
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Why is creating a more just, equitable, and inclusive tech industry so difficult? The short answer: there is no silver bullet for inclusion! The reality of designing experiences is that they are shaped by many individuals who make countless seemingly inconsequential decisions that shape a result.
Care/Community/Action! is a generative card set that facilitates the examination and reimagining of material cultures and designed environments through a lens of care.
We all have varying visions of what the future of inclusivity in design looks like and this can create a challenge as we navigate together towards an improved future state. In this strategic planning workshop, we’ll explore our collective understanding of the past and envision possible futures of inclusive design
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An exploration of relationship-building and design during a pandemic This roundtable will reflect on our positionality as public servants – how easy it is to break than mend trust in the age of COVID-19. We’ll explore how we’ve tried (and failed) to responsibly engage with communities often overlooked and under-supported by institutions and the value of reciprocal, sustained relationships with community partners to rebuild and regain trust.
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The conference organiser discusses why we put the conference together, and where we see the field going.
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How might we work holistically with local communities to build equity into national services? This talk explores a case study of a long-term research project with trans and non-binary community groups to understand how to best work in an open and meaningful way.
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With most day-to-day services going predominantly digital, how often have we heard this question from our aged parents, grandparents, friends, and neighbors - “I don’t know how to do this on my phone/laptop, can you help me?” This talk takes you through my exploration of inclusive design for seniors by examining the role of 'digital support‘ in intergenerational relationships.
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Unveiling the hidden truths: Discover how colonial practices marginalize Panjabi communities in Canada's healthcare system and witness the birth of a transformative solution—the Panjabi-Centred Design Framework. Prepare to challenge the status quo, empower marginalized voices, and embark on a journey towards true liberation and inclusive care.
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How do we maintain clinical safety whilst ensuring a service responds to the needs of people with different sexes and genders? This talk explores the challenges faced in conducting in-depth user research with people who are trans, non-binary and have differences of sex development to improve a live national health service in the UK.
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In this talk Connie shares her experience and reflections about running safe and effective trauma-informed user research, and how to set your project up to conduct these activities safely for the people whose voices you are intending to understand and elevate.
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In the Government of Canada, the Self-Identification Questionnaire allows employees to declare as a member of an employment equity group so that it can determine how representative the workforce is of the Canadian public. But the current form and supporting legislation is 26 years old--saying it's outdated is an understatement. Here's how we approached the research to achieve co-design at scale.
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In this case study I will demonstrate how the Co-op is doing accessibility at scale across multiple product teams using our 5-steps accessibility benchmarking process.I will explain why and how we do it, give a tour of our accessibility dashboard, talk about how the process has galvanised the teams around accessibility, discuss our relationship with our accessibility partner Fable and share some valuable lessons we learned along the way.
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How can we create inclusive design experiences that reach a larger audience? Join me as we explore effective strategies for conducting research and implementing inclusive design practices to ensure accessibility and inclusivity for all.
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We all want to create safe, accessible experiences when we’re delivering training, presentations, or workshops. But telling people it’s a safe space doesn’t make it so. This talk gives some practical tips on how to intentionally include people who experience the world differently from you, whether due to disability, culture or identity.
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Join us for a candid reflection on navigating disability discrimination in the workplace. We’ll walk through the anatomy of a discrimination complaint and discuss the importance of care, community, and rest during the process.
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Hiring practices tend to be rife with exclusivity, from disadvantaging people with limited free time to favouring highly confident personalities. This talk shares how a human-centred design team at the University of Edinburgh have been evolving their recruitment process to make it more inclusive and fair to candidates, and where the team still wants to improve.
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To help build more inclusive workplaces, we need to actively listen to those with varying needs and experiences. Within this session we will speak to 3 designers and user researchers who are neurodivergent to hear about their experiences navigating workplaces, how to make workplaces more inclusive for neurodivergent people, and myths about their strengths and weaknesses and how that intersects with their job roles.
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How can we create equitable reflective spaces for young neurodivergent people to share? In this talk we’ll share the journey Uncommon has been on to create empowering spaces for young neurodivergent people to learn, share their experiences, better understand themselves and foster a sense of belonging.
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How can we design for wellbeing support through a culturally sensitive lens? This talk delves into the journey of a designer, drawing on personal experiences rooted in her South Asian background, as she addresses a critical gap in the healthcare industry by incorporating cultural sensitivity to tackle eating disorders.
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How would it feel to watch Jaws without hearing the iconic soundtrack? This talk explores and shares experiences, learnings and insights from a research project looking at how Deaf British Sign Language users experience suspense in film.
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When co-creating with children and young people, how do we include all of children's and young peoples’ ways of knowing including their lived experiences, dreams, and collective imagination? Drawing on "Flayed", a 2023 advert about Image-Based Sexual Abuse devised by teenagers, this talk discusses the role of enchantment in the co-creation studio, some practices to collectively conjure visions of what children know, and the conditions we need to invoke to make this work work.
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Incorporating feedback from assistive technology users is vital at all stages of the product development cycle but can be particularly impactful during the design phase. Unlocking ways to collect user insights early and often further shifts your products towards inclusive design.
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Told through the stories of four participants from Black and Asian backgrounds, Hostile reveals the human stories behind the UK government’s “hostile environment” policies, which are designed to make living conditions so difficult for migrants that they voluntarily leave the UK. Sonita Gale, the BAFTA-longlisted filmmaker who created Hostile, will share her documentary making process for 15 minutes and spend 30 minutes answering questions provided by our host and the audience.
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‘Inclusive’ language, terminology and processes are now widely used and recognised as important in the design and research field, but to what extent do we understand what this means and how it plays out on a human level? How might we reconnect with the idea that inclusion and safety are feelings as well as formalities or approaches? This workshop will explore the language of ‘inclusion’, and create space to reconnect with and reflect on the human experience of sharing, learning, designing and collaborating.
This interactive workshop explores participatory methods used with marginalized populations in low-middle income countries to inform the design of online and offline health interventions. We will also identify the challenges, opportunities, and best practices for applying these methods in other industries.
People who have experienced trauma are all around us: they are our team members, our users and perhaps even ourselves. Researching with users, we risk triggering past trauma, or even inadvertently creating fresh trauma, yet many of us are ill-equipped to deal with this complexity in our roles. This workshop is a chance to learn about trauma-informed practice, and gain practical ideas for embedding it.
This workshop explores how disabled people are excluded from design and research work, and how we can change that. We’ll look at how the tools we use are often not accessible and discuss how to use them in more accessible and inclusive ways.
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As design researchers, we all come to our work with biases shaped by our many identities, experiences, and points of view. This workshop will dispel the persistent myth that researchers are neutral parties and will introduce mindsets and practices for bias mitigation.
As we scale our design practice we often refer to popular principles of what ‘good design’ is. But whose idea of ‘good design’ are we using to guide our work, and how does that perpetuate inequality in the products, services and systems we design?
Through this project we aim to explore how co-design practices evolved and pivoted to engage the most impacted communities in health service research and delivery and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of creating a community of practice to learn from these experiences to inform the future of co-design practices.
A dynamic workshop designed to shift perspectives and empower workplaces and teams. We will delve into the unique strengths neurodivergent individuals bring to the table, offering tangible strategies for cultivating an inclusive work culture that fosters diversity of thought and boosts innovation.
