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

Attribution: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

lead user innovation, information asymmetry between manufacturers and users, and variance in user product needs.

design for the margins.

and doesn’t require an impact analysis of the distribution

but it has little to say about values, community accountability or control, or the ultimate distribution of benefits such as profits or attention.

Design justice practitioners choose to work in solidarity with and amplify the power of community-based organizations.

certain groups of users—in particular, those who are too few to ensure that the manufacturer will benefit from economies of scale—will be more likely than others to have unmet needs.

If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu

The former implies that our goal is a fair algorithm that “treats all individuals the same,” within the tightly bound limits of its operational domain and regardless of the effects of past or present-day discrimination. The latter implies something else: that the end goal is to provide access, opportunities, and improved life chances for all people