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. …

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…