The Challenge
At an individual level how might we inspire sprinters to move from awareness to inclusive advocates? And at an organization level how might we enable and promote adopting inclusive advocates to the organization?
Reframing Assumptions for Inclusive Design
How can we reframe our collaboration process to value our sprinters for their lived experience as fellow humans?
When we get together in a sprint to solve an inclusivity or equity issue with a product, we can sometimes get so focused on what we’re trying to solve “for” that we forget that the best way to get there is to solve “with.” And by “with,” we mean that literally: having the people we’re designing for in the room doing the designing right along with us. Our group embarked on an unlearning and reflecting process, asking questions and exploring how we can reframe the sprint process with a new perspective, one that values fellow sprinters for their lived experience as fellow humans, in all their diversity and intersectionality (not merely just “designers” or “engineers”) and how to take this new inclusive mindset out into the organization. We honed in on 2 areas where we believe sprinters and their organisations can make simple changes.
