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An Ethic of Care for Research Participants as Trauma Survivors

How can researchers identify and respond to signs of distress from research participants, grounding their practice in an ethic of care?

9 min readMar 28, 2023

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Image of a folder set on a table, with a page displaying the following text against a red background: “Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Distress from Participants”

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Sarah Fathallah

Trauma Responsiveness in Participatory Research

Research can be a site of harm and trauma for both participants and researchers. How can we be trauma-responsive in our research practices?

10 min readSep 9, 2022

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Trauma Responsiveness in Participatory Research

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Sarah Fathallah
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UX Collective

Confronting the power designers wield

As designers, we wield a lot power in our work. But where do we exert this power? And how can we reflect on it and question it?

7 min readSep 7, 2023

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Photograph of a book by Cyndi Suarez called “The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics”

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Sarah Fathallah
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Pollinator: the Bloom Works blog

The Case for Participatory Methods in Design Research

4 reasons to use participatory methods in their design research: to get information you wouldn’t get otherwise, to minimize strain, to ...

9 min readMar 19, 2021

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The Case for Participatory Methods in Design Research

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Sarah Fathallah

Metaphor matters: How to make your design language more accessible

There’s no denying it: design uses a lot of jargon. How can we use metaphors to make it more accessible?

5 min readJun 16, 2020

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Metaphor matters: How to make your design language more accessible

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Sarah Fathallah
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Notes Off the Grid

Why Design Researchers Should Compensate Participants

My response to five arguments raised by practitioners who are hesitant or opposed to participant compensation in design research.

8 min readApr 7, 2020

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Why Design Researchers Should Compensate Participants

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Sarah Fathallah
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Studio D

The open sesame to working on a foundational design research project with a ten-person team

“It’s so beautiful!” my colleague Nilar exclaimed, as we were browsing photographs and illustrations of sesame affecting pests and…

6 min readNov 27, 2019

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The open sesame to working on a foundational design research project with a ten-person team

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Sarah Fathallah
in
The Airbel Impact Lab

How to support designers transitioning into the social sector

Developing a training workshop to help design practitioners “translate” their skills to the social sector and invest in their capacity.

7 min readFeb 4, 2019

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How to support designers transitioning into the social sector

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Sarah Fathallah
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UX Collective

Researching family planning through proverbial Hausa — a UX case study

How can proverbs and hard-to-translate idioms enrich the work that we do as design researchers?

7 min readSep 25, 2018

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Researching family planning through proverbial Hausa — a UX case study

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Sarah Fathallah
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The Airbel Impact Lab

Cooking up a Design Training Curriculum for Non-Designers

"This is not working," I thought as I looked at the struck through, scribbled out training agenda on my table.

6 min readMay 21, 2018

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Cooking up a Design Training Curriculum for Non-Designers

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Sarah Fathallah

Sarah Fathallah

Also known as سارة فتح الله or ⵙⴰⵔⴰ ⴼⵜⵃⴰⵍⵍⴰⵀ. Social designer and researcher. More about my work at http://sarahfathallah.com

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