Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Recommended for all designers to read is Mismatch. This book was written by Kat Holmes who worked on the Inclusive Design team at Microsoft in the past, and is now on the Google Inclusive Design team.

What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible. For a long time, the concept of accessibility has been limited in terms of only defining physical spaces.

"LinkedIn's most popular DEIJ expert offers compassionate and practical advice for stressed leaders under pressure from staff, customers, and partners to avoid diversity screw-ups. Centering the marginalized is the future of your business."

"You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Leverage tools and techniques like clear copywriting, well-structured IA, meaningful HTML, and thoughtful design, to create a solid set of best practices."

It is one of the most popular books on diversity in recent years. Unconscious biases are investigated by psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, who look at how events and ideas gradually alter thinking ways. The authors demonstrate how to recognize and fight biases using scientific approaches like the Implicit Association Test.