Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)

People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way, but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative.

focuses on concrete mechanisms for community control, is linked to a disability justice analysis, and explicitly attends to the distribution of design’s benefits and burdens according to the matrix of domination.

Attribution: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

Design Process: From Participation to Accountability to Ownership

processes, the bulk of the benefits end up going to the professional designers and their institutions. Products, patents, processes, credit, visibility, fame: the lion’s share goes to the professional design firms and designers.

The costs of communicating specific user needs will generally be higher for users from disadvantaged locations within the matrix of domination.

designers tend to unconsciously default to imagined users whose experiences are similar to their own.35 This means that users are

“techie parachuters” for a quick fix, instead of investing to build capacity within a community.

the difference between algorithmic colorblindness and algorithmic justice.

cycle, the usefulness of the technology becomes biased towards one group.