For anyone who wants a better understanding of inclusive design UX principles or is looking to do some inclusive design training to adopt these principles in their own research and design work, here are some great resources that I’ve come across.
The Government of Canada has an analytical framework for inclusive policy creation that includes a good inclusive design intro course. Don’t let the awkward name fool you. The online course is free and takes a few hours from start to finish.
Design resource including link to downloadable PDF toolkit. It looks good but have not used the toolkit in practice.
There are a few other downloadables and one that is really useful if you are designing notification systems and is called “Respecting Focus: A Behaviour Guide for Intelligent Systems” by Margaret Price and Doug Kim.
Animikii is an Indigneous owned agency based in Victoria, BC, that brings an indigenous perspective to design issues. I came across a few articles when researching data sovereignty. Anyone working in government could benefit from a read.
The aim of the field guide is to help designer’s develop power literacy. This includes building up your awareness and understanding of, and sensitivity to the impact of power and systemic oppression in participatory design processes.
You will gain a holistic understanding of power, while examining the role you play in reproducing inequity—however unintentional—and what you can do to change this.
An approach to minimizing bias, unfairness and prejudice in data science projects. Also has a course that introduces the framework.
I took this course (US$475 for 2 x ½ day sessions) and found it well-presented and very good.
Lauren Isaacson from Curio Research has been sharing her wisdom and experience in making research accessible since she did a talk at Radical Research Summit in 2019 and again at Convey UX in 2020.
