Inclusive Design includes more than recognizing challenges for our customers with a disability. It also recognizes the intersections between ability, race, gender, socioeconomic, and family dynamics. Including diverse voices in your product design and customer interviews will lead to greater products that support all of our customers.
Organizations and resources to explore
- Intersectionality – National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
- The Challenge of Intersectionality – American Society on Aging
- Intersectionality 101: Why “we’re focusing on women” doesn’t work for Diversity & Inclusion
- The Triple Cripples: Triple Cripples is intended to be a platform that highlights the lives and loves of disabled women, femmes and non-binary people of colour.
Associations/Organizations/Societies:
- Association of Latino Professionals For America
- Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers
- National Society of Black Engineers
- Latino veterans – League of United Latin American Citizens
- The National Association for Black Veterans
- National Black Deaf Advocates
- Black Deaf Center
- Deaf Latino Family Organization
- Latino Deaf and Hard of Hearing Association of the Metropolitan Washington DC
- National Asian Deaf Congress (NADC)
- Blind and Visually Impaired Native Americans
- Native American Veterans Association
- Hispanic National Bar Association:
- National Association Hispanic Journalists
LGBTQ Intersectionality
- 17 Black-Led LGBTQ+ Services and Groups You Can Support Right Now
- LGBTQ Latino group
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) – League of United Latin American Citizens
- Asian Americans LGBTQ groups
- The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
- Native Americans LGBTQ group
- LGBTQ professional and student associations