How To Be Antiracist In Your Design Process
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the inherent bias we’re surfacing in artificial intelligence, we believe we’re being provided an opportunity to pause and reflect on the implicit bias that seeps into how we design experiences. For example — specific to personas, it’s quite easy to make generalizations about a group of people when creating a persona — especially when it’s not informed by first-hand user research.
As a collective, if we can come together to share our experiences, inform others, and ultimately co-create a set of guidelines on how to be more inclusive starting within the innovation process itself, we can create new products, experiences and services that are anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-ageist. These reasons are why humble, in partnership with Personify, are convening stakeholders from across the ecosystem for a 1-hour Pop-Up August 20th at 7:30 pm EST, How To Be Antiracist In Your Design Process.
We look forward to you joining us for this virtual event which features Chatroulette-style networking and a panel of builders, designers, entrepreneurs, and investors listed below:
Panelists
- Host / Moderator — Om Suthar, Personify, Entrepreneur, Designer
- Mona Patel, Designer + Entrepreneur @ Motivate Design
- Harry Alford, Investor @ humble ventures
- Jeremy Panwala, Product Leader @ Microsoft
- Erica Peterson, Founder @ Digital Project Masters
- Hameto Benkreira, Product Leader @ Capital One Labs
- Jeremy Evans-Smith, Entrepreneur + Community Builder @ Ascending
- Juan Arraguin, Designer @ Healthy Together
About humble ventures
Humble Ventures is a venture development firm that drives innovation forward in partnership with startups, established enterprises, and investors.
We focus on diverse entrepreneurs that are solving problems for the fastest growing demographic segments. We believe that diverse entrepreneurs provide opportunities for disproportionate returns and represent the markets of the future.
If you’re an enterprise in search of new business or delivery models, please reach out. If you’re a diverse founder with product/market fit, looking to scale — we would love to hear from you. If you’re trying to figure out your post-pandemic playbook, how to operate remote first, or how to address implicit bias and systemic racism, drop us a line — start@humble.vc.
