Digital design has the power to permeate every moment in our lives. That power along with empathy, makes design a superpower.
We have to make an effort:
- Create awareness of our biases and challenge them
- Make a conscious decision to learn about other realities
- Develop and exercise our empathy
- Ask ourselves: Who have I excluded in my design?
2. Débora Edelberg, Product Designer
from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mentor at Springboard UXC + UX1
Digital nomad!
uxdeb.com | @deboraedelberg
Hola! I’m Deb
7. Empathy
[noun] /ˈɛmpəθi/
The ability to share someone else's feelings
or experiences by imagining what it would
be like to be in that person's situation.
20. Some guidelines for better accessibility
Ensure good contrast
Don’t use color as the only visual
cue
21. Some guidelines for better accessibility
Ensure good contrast
Don’t use color as the only visual cue
Make links look like links
22. Some guidelines for better accessibility
Ensure good contrast
Don’t use color as the only visual cue
Make links look like links
Use labels and instructions on
fields
23. Tools
Stark (plugin) Tanaguru contrast
getstark.co
contrast-finder.tanaguru.com
Check contrast and color
blindness simulator
Suggest safe colors
based on palette
26. 81%
Of 13-20 year-olds (“Gen Z”) believe that
gender did not define a person as much as it used to.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kb4dvz/teens-these-days-are-queer-af-new-study-says
27. 1.Do I really need this
information?
Gender in forms
28. 1.Do I really need this
information?
2.Explain what you will use it
for
Gender in forms
29. 1.Do I really need this
information?
2.Explain what you will use it for
3.Consider an opt-out option
Gender in forms
30. 1.Do I really need this
information?
2.Explain what you will use it for
3.Consider an opt-out option
4.Prefer to self-identify
Gender in forms
31. 1.Do I really need this
information?
2.Explain what you will use it for
3.Consider an opt-out option
4.Prefer to self-identify
5.Use pronouns instead
Gender in forms
33. We all have biases
● Being aware of our biases and challenging them
● Making a conscious decision to learn about other
realities
● Developing and exercising our empathy
● Who have I excluded in my design?
