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. But the UX market has a problem despite our fascination with inclusivity. When we say Inclusive Design we mean Accessibility features. What we need is a complete rethinking of culture around building products. Designing by humans, for humans. To create for all humans, we need the input of more than white/cis/het/men humans.
AIGA agrees that design has a diversity problem and it's overlapping: "…two overlapping areas in which design as a profession is lagging: demographic diversity and a culture of inclusion. The two rely on each other, and both are crucial for the future success of the industry." — AIGA.com, July 01, 2014.
2014. Well, I guess the community didn't act fast on that. Here's the issue, in 1991 93% of designers were white and a lot were also cisgender men. We need more people that are diverse —…
