Your team is designing an app that will help students in a school or college to find and meet other people with shared interest. It’s basically a young person’s Meetup.
As a team, review the D4D framework to explore ways the app can be useful for young people while also supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This method uses a checklist, like a pilot or surgeon’s checklist to avoid common mistakes or errors.
DIVERSITY is quantitative. It’s the composition of different people represented in what you make, and the decision makers on your team.
INCLUSION speaks to the quality of the experience you’ve designed for these diverse folks, so they experience themselves as leaders and decision makers.
EQUITY lives in how we design our systems and processes; the way we work, and who we work with, so we are upholding our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Each team will choose one of the 5 Core Questions in the D4D framework, review the description, discuss your responses, post them on Slack #dei-exercise, and present them to the class. We’ll try to summarize key approaches that will insure the best DEI design.
For each team, pick at least one of each, for larger teams some roles can be shared:
- Facilitator who gets everyone to contribute and also helps decide these roles.
- Researcher who searches for more information in the D4D article or online
- Summarizer who reports team findings in Slack
- Speaker who present information to class