Design practitioners solidarity circle

Design practitioners solidarity circle

Notes

Aspiration Tech Dev Summit ‘24 Design Working Group Notes November 20, 2024

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• Building a shared understanding of co-creative design (co-design)
  • Pay folks for their input for equity
  • Put decision making in communities’ hands
  • Problems
• Lack of time for user testing
• People at the top of the system are disconnect from users
• Overview of design process:
  • ID the problem
  • ID the target audience
  • Conduct listening sessions
  • Empathize
  • Test solutions

Imaging idea generation as a funnel:

• Diverge: coming up with many ideas
• As you go through the process, the ideas converge (identify a few ideas that hone in on the problem you’re trying to solve)

Design Justice (designjustice.com)

• Matrix of Domination
• The Dataset Nutrition Label: helps identify gaps in addressing user needs

Factors: -Lack of empowerment: how do we figure it out? -Biased datasets → building the wrong thing -Budget limitations - Time limitations

• Alignment (especially with leadership)
• Capacity to collaborate with others
• Engagement
• Solving "all the things with one thing" (example, Swiss Amy Knife)

- Tech as sociotechnical (Scandinavian design)

• "Make it pretty"
• Lost in translation (in communicating design)
• What is the actual practice?
• tailor message for the audience

Participatory action (power shifts) redefining problem - Creative problem solving (socialization)

One word to describe how we feel about design: Growth Justice Co-design Digestible Grateful Clarity Human -centered 옷

Want more :

• roadmapping
• using social media to put out platforms

Resources

• Do Good Design
• The Inclusive Design jam (Slack) Camacho
• Ideas, Arrangements, & Effects
• Design Justice
• Coalition
• Technology Accountability Coalition (Aspen Institute)
• Creative Reaction Lab
• Circular Economy (Ellen MacArthur )
• IDEO.org
• Adobe Design Equity
• Center for Story-based Strategy