Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
One concrete accountability mechanism that practitioners suggest is community advisory boards or governing councils that can guide and own design processes.
design narratives: who receives attention and credit for design work,
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way, but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative.
extensive impact on the design of everything from the built environment to human-computer interfaces, from international architectural standards to the technical requirements of broadcast media and the internet,
the difference between algorithmic colorblindness and algorithmic justice.
Beyond employment equity, design justice requires full inclusion of, accountability to, and ultimately control by people with direct lived experience of the conditions the design team is trying to change.
lead user innovation, information asymmetry between manufacturers and users, and variance in user product needs.
when the cost (in time and energy) of communicating a specific kind of user need to the manufacturer is high, it often makes more sense for users to modify products on their own than to attempt to convince manufacturers to do so.