Building your inclusive design toolkit

While we may keenly want to design in an inclusive and accessible way, it can be overwhelming to get started -- inclusive design covers not just accessibility, but must also consider other dimensions: race and cultural diversity, gender and sexual orientation, trauma and vulnerability, digital inclusion, socioeconomic factors, and multiple literacies (digital, technological, financial, numbers, words) -- to name a few!

In this talk, I clarify key concepts that often come up in inclusive design -- like intersectionality and lived experience -- and then share key starting points that designers can use to build their own inclusive design toolkit. My aim for this session is for people to come away with actionable learnings and a baseline level of understanding to help cut through the overwhelm.

My desire to speak about this comes from over 10 years of study and community engagement, lived experience, and hands-on practice as a designer. I've been working on this idea for the past several months and plan to trial a light version with a private group, so if I'm accepted it won't be the first time I run it.