Thread by @albanvillamil

1/ Registration closes 11/9 (tomorrow!) for @hmntycntrd's #CriticalUX event. We'll be hosting panels challenging design's uncritical focus on accessibility and "diversity" as well as its reliance on carceral logics: hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux

Here's a sneak peek for Friday...

2/ In #CriticalUX's "Beyond Accessibility," @jtknoxroxs and @elizejackson (moderated by @LindsPlay) will call out how design/accessibility discards, appropriates, and assimilates disability and will then discuss what alternatives they ground their work in hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux

3/ For example, artist-activist @jtknoxroxs will talk about how she takes an intersectional lens to her design work as well as grounds it in care, joy, and the community power of Blackness #CriticalUX
eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-the-black-…

4/ While @elizejackson will discuss how designers have always erased disabled innovation and have created narratives that co-opt disability activism while not actually addressing the real threats disabled users face #CriticalUX

bitchmedia.org/article/disabi…

5/ In #CriticalUX's "Failure of Diversity," @DrHouston_II, @happy_stomach, and Anne Diaz will explore what anti-racist work can look like in the private sector. How can we design strategic organizational theories of change that go beyond "be more diverse"?
hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux

6/ @DrHouston_II will unpack the dangers of universalism in user research and how targeting Black and other specific groups of users allow designers to more easily identify bad actors they must design against #CriticalUX

medium.com/facebook-resea…

7/ Anne Diaz will dive into the nitty-gritty of the legal and ethical challenges of studying race and racism. Although measuring race is an important part of anti-racist design, it also brings up a host of issues like data privacy and misuse #CriticalUX

bit.ly/30HHLXa

8/ @happy_stomach will discuss how can we better organize and manage our teams doing anti-racist work. What infrastructural changes (e.g., skills, charters, rituals) do we need to make to enhance the benefit of diversity? #CriticalUX

buttonconf.com/2021-program/d…

9/ In #CriticalUX's "Design as Resistance," @SFath, @ploipailin, and Daly Barnett will show how policing goes beyond officers in uniform. They'll show how designers can begin to dismantle their "inner cops," both in their products and process.
hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux

10/ @SFath will describe how designers, like cops, pitch themselves as problem fixers but actually enforce social control either by designing products for police, promoting popular design frameworks to police, or thinking and acting like police #CriticalUX
designmuseumfoundation.org/abolish-the-co…

11/ @ploipailin will demonstrate how what user behavior is labeled as illicit/punishable can have huge business consequences. She will also walk us through how she used design to organize gig worker resistance against surveillance. #CriticalUX

vibecalledtech.com/tech-advocacy

12/ And finally Daly Barnett will talk about how designing for "safety" not only discriminates against vulnerable users like sex workers and LGBTQ users but also has unintended consequences for the groups we had originally meant to protect #CriticalUX

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13/ All #CriticalUX panels will have ASL interpreters, CART captioning. Ticket holders will get a recording and invite to discuss the event with other audience members later in November. There are also scholarships.

Drop your questions for speakers here!
hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux