This case study offers strategies for navigating internal frictions within research teams faced with sensitive...
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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...
Let’s Chat!: Prototyping, Productive Frictions, and Radically Restructuring Adolescent Sexual Health Counseling Interactions
This case study examines the use of iterative prototyping to raise concerns important to adolescents and...
Equity-Centered Leadership
Equity-Centered Leadership focuses on ensuring that all employees can succeed in a workplace, regardless of their...
Equity & Research Operations: Generation Focus Founder Joanna Beer
Generation Focus is an EPIC Equity Partner, providing direct support to EPIC Equity Council programs that advance equity and create collaborative spaces for our community to embed equity within our work. Generation Focus is also a customer research firm that provides strategic Research...
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...
Introducing the 2023 EPIC Equity Program Chairs
Meet the leaders working to advance equity and diversity through a new EPIC program! In May 2023 we will welcome the first cohort of participants in our new program, Becoming EPIC: Building Equity. Initiated by the EPIC Equity Council, this program is being developed and chaired in 2023 by four...
Announcing the EPIC Equity Council & Cohort Program
Ethnographers are powerful change makers in business, organizations, and communities because we understand people within complex social and cultural contexts. In ethnography, “reflexivity” is the rigorous practice of understanding ourselves in the same way. We know that power and inequities shape...
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...
Tutorial: Power Tools for Equity in Research & Design
Overview To do ethical, equitable work in any domain, we need robust tools for assessing and addressing power. Whether we’re creating products, services, or policies, inequities can create direct and indirect...