An open letter about inequality — You might remember me from Design is lagging — UX teams have an inclusivity problem. I got a very lengthy response that tl;dr is “I didn’t see overt bias happen or knowingly participate in any discrimination, so it must not exist.” The same sentiment is expressed to me at networking…

The design world is woefully deficient in creating positive, equal experiences for people with disabilities — One isn’t bad I bent over one day and like ink swirling into a glass of water, there it was. A coil of thick, pulsing threats. I didn’t know what it was saying to me, but I knew it was menacing. …

Actionable ways to improve your accessibility over multi-channel experiences. — Are you wondering how you or your organization can make your social media more inclusive and accessible? You may have never considered social media as a part of your personal or organizational plan for inclusivity, and that’s okay. Today is the perfect day to start. Being inclusive causes us to…

We knew that there was a problem, why has nothing changed? Inclusive design is en vogue in user experience right now. And I truly like that. I enjoy that people are expanding beyond the lowest hanging fruit of screen reader and captioning tools. …

I’m in a User Experience Design MPS at MICA and a few people in my cohort are switching careers and haven’t ever worked with design tools or in graphic design before. …

“It’s just … I don’t like it,” I insist, emphatic over a spoken word band video. “It’s not accessible work. It’s not understandable. It’s mixed with the music in a way that words get dropped.” While I am a user experience designer during work hours, I write poetry in my…

Hungry to get more experience points? — So you’re doing the work as a designer. You’ve taken the online courses, you’ve read Don’t Make Me Think, Design for Emotion, and industrial and experience design cult classic, The Design of Everyday Things. I know, it was amazing! I still pick out something new every time I read it…

and two reasons you should — #Livestreaming is the new Youtube. When Youtube started letting content creators monetize their videos, it was a huge move for the creative community. The original video of a woman streaming her experience with a Star Wars product that is exclusive to Kohl’s has been viewed over 100 MILLION times. As…