UX Leadership Exchange SEA: Inclusive Products and Teams

An in-person panel discussion the challenges, successes, and strategies for creating inclusive teams and products across industries.

Featured:

• Bernadette Berger, Director of Innovation, Alaska Airlines

• Brittany Schiesel, Head of Research, Blink UX

• Chris Z. Yu, Head of Design, Lexion (Docusign)

• Joe Welinske, CPACC, Head of Accessibility, Blink UX

• Laura Blanchard, Head of Design, Blink UX, Moderator

Key themes:

• Accessibility: Ensuring that all users, including those with disabilities, can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with experiences effectively – both offline and digital – with independence and dignity.
• User Diversity: Recognizing and accommodating the diversity among users in terms of age, gender, culture, language, education level, and technological literacy. Designing with empathy for different user needs, capabilities, and lived experiences.
• Inclusive Research & Design: Conducting research inclusive of diverse user groups as a fundamental principle. Using inclusive design practices that prioritize user dignity, respect, and privacy. Active recognition and examination of our own biases and institutional biases.