This case study examines the use of iterative prototyping to raise concerns important to adolescents and...
Tag: equity
Dismantling Stereotypes: Taking an Inside-Out Perspective to Building Better Representation in Advertising for Unilever
Equality, inclusion, and representation are increasingly acknowledged as core tenets of prosperous countries, cities, and organizations. We know that equality is essential, and we also know equality must be enacted on all fronts. Brands and other social organizations are increasingly recognizing...
Researcher Positionality and Identity Validation: A Case Study in Organizational Friction over the Framing of a Demographic Questionnaire
This case study offers strategies for navigating internal frictions within research teams faced with sensitive...
Ethnographers as Intermediaries: Plurality as a Double-Edged Sword in Web3
This paper addresses a misalignment between market motivations and community needs in Web3, arguing that...
The People Say: How We Built a Groundbreaking Public Research Platform to Catalyze Human-Centered Policymaking
The People Say is a pioneering research repository and a model for making rich qualitative data available for...
Double Consciousness in Research and Design: Shifting toward Empowerment and Equity
Over a century after W.E.B. Du Bois developed the concept of double consciousness, this experience of “twoness”...
Let’s Shift Power Together! An EPIC Co-Creation Activity
This wildcard session was a conference-wide co-creation activity. Together, EPIC attendees reflected on the dynamic relationship between resilience and power. Then, through a facilitated, real-time activity, we collectively generated an actionable power-redistribution framework—a set of strategies...
Friction in Equity Work for Product Development: Getting Unstuck
As part of an internal UX team, researchers at a multinational tech corporation were tasked with improving the...
The Myth of the Pipeline Problem: Creating a Diverse and Thriving Team
Corporate leaders issued countless statements decrying racism and investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in 2020. As a result of the pandemic and the ongoing racial reckoning that year, the...
Cyborg Literacy for the 21st Century
In this session, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau teach participants how to apply Critical Cyborg Literacy to...