Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2019
- Justin Obara
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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Coding to Learn and Create | Design Crit | Lisa | December 4, 2019 | We will be looking at some early work on accessibility annotation for the Coding to Learn and Create prototype. You can review the Figma file here:https://www.figma.com/file/S2slfoXt8yJifGFO1WaF8t/C2LC-V0.5?node-id=0%3A1 . Accessibility annotation is a way to communicate the desired accessibility functionality from a design to implementation. |
Interactive Holograms | Community Workshop | Michael Carter | November 27, 2019 | Holograms and Footprints Ver. 2 I utilize a holographic display to create new ways of visualizing 3D artifacts for learning, in addition with creating interactions using RFID recognition. Right now I have a heavy focus on designing for Museums, but ultimately I'm trying to conceptualize new ways of engaging students in educational content to help with distractions in classrooms. |
Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS (Webinar) | Community Workshop | Harris Schneiderman via Smashing Magazine | November 20, 2019 | Smashing TV: Harris Schneiderman on Translating Design Wireframes into Accessible HTML/CSS(Nov 20th) |
IDRC Website redesign - Get involved section | Design Crit | Jon | November 19, 2019 | We will be taking a look at a mock-up for the “Get Involved” section of the IDRC website redesign. |
Storytelling Tool content authoring | Design Crit | Gregor, Jon, Justin | November 12, 2019 | We will be talking about the Storytelling Tool. Specifically:
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Platform coop co-design “potluck” dry run | Community Workshop | Cheryl Li | October 30, 2019 | At this design crit, we will be participating in the Platform Coop co-design “potluck” dry run where we will spend time identifying common inclusive design challenges and needs. This “potluck” will continue into the Community Meeting on Wednesday October 30 2:30pm to 4pm ET where we will collaboratively come up with ideas to address these challenges. You can choose to attend either Tuesday or Wednesday meeting, or both.
The meeting will be hosted in the Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West (IDRC offices) in Toronto, and online in this Vidyo web conference room.
For more information on the Community design crits, please visit the Design Crit wiki page.
A description of the “potluck” follows below:
Come and join the Platform Coop project for a dry run of the co-design workshop we are running next week at the PCC conference. The goal of this co-design is to:
To recontextualize the workshop for our group, we’ll be asking you:
This will be a double bill, meaning that there will be two parts:
Note that you do not need to come to the first one to come to the second one! Drop by one, or both. |
Platform Coop co-design potluck dry run | Design Crit | Cheryl, Ned | October 29, 2019 | At this design crit, we will be participating in the Platform Coop co-design “potluck” dry run where we will spend time identifying common inclusive design challenges and needs. This “potluck” will continue into the Community Meeting on Wednesday October 30 2:30pm to 4pm ET where we will collaboratively come up with ideas to address these challenges. You can choose to attend either Tuesday or Wednesday meeting, or both.
The meeting will be hosted in the Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West (IDRC offices) in Toronto, and online in this Vidyo web conference room.
For more information on the Community design crits, please visit the Design Crit wiki page.
A description of the “potluck” follows below:
Come and join the Platform Coop project for a dry run of the co-design workshop we are running next week at the PCC conference. The goal of this co-design is to:
To recontextualize the workshop for our group, we’ll be asking you:
This will be a double bill, meaning that there will be two parts:
Note that you do not need to come to the first one to come to the second one! Drop by one, or both. |
Sketching for Coding to Learn (C2LC) | Design Crit | Daniel | October 1, 2019 | The purpose of the sketch session is to come up with ideas to make interaction with the coding robots more fun and engaging like gamifying the interaction (like a RPG with stories), and maybe talk about some system design too. |
Learning Circles | Community Workshop | Grif Peterson | September 25, 2019 | This week, we'll be joined by Grif Peterson, executive director at Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). For the past four years, P2PU has been developing and supporting learning circles: groups of people who meet in public spaces like libraries to learn something together using online courses. Learning circles began at Chicago Public Library, and have since spread to more than 100 cities and towns around the world, including Toronto. Grif will briefly introduce the project, sharing some insights on how P2PU's conceptions of public space, online education, and peer learning have evolved during this project, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. He and Jutta have spoken a little bit about possible collaborations, and he'd love to explore that with others as well. |
Sustainable Dev Goals Action Guide | Design Crit | Liam | September 24, 2019 | TakingITGlobal is developing action guides for youth based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. On September 24, join us in brainstorming and discussing the design of an accessible online version of these guides. Related resources:
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IDRC Website wireframes | Design Crit | Cheryl | September 18, 2019 | We will be taking a look at some new IDRC website wireframes. We will be looking for feedback into the early designs and functionality of the website. Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GXNT97yIdTNJhNm0x7InxK2JUYyleDjFLcuIXuM9eWE/edit?usp=sharing Figma file: IDRC wireframes - design crit - Sept 18 2019
As you can see, things are still pretty rough and low-fidelity right now, and we don't have all the pages designed yet. Please feel free to leave comments on both applications, especially if you won't' be able to make it tomorrow but still want to take a peek / provide feedback!
For some context, some of the questions we're trying to answer with the website are:
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Strategies for accessible notifications on changed content | Design Crit | Justin, Gregor | September 17, 2019 | We will be talking about strategies for accessible web notifications for changes of web content. This discussion will likely be technical and will involve talking about different implementations of code. |
Inclusive Analytics | Design Crit | Everyone | August 20, 2019 | Questions to provoke discussion:
These questions are broad-reaching in its impact, and can apply across many domains: the workplace, within a classroom, deployment of services and products, etc. |
C2LC co-design recap | Community Workshop | Sepideh, Crystal, Kendra | August 7, 2019 | The Coding to Learn and Create (C2LC) team would like to share some of their experiences, challenges and insights from four co-design sessions with kids with complex learning needs. We would like to hear your feedback about our process and activities in order to improve our co-design approach for similar events in the future. |
IDRC Website Information Architecture | Design Crit | Cheryl | August 6, 2019 | Cheryl will be leading a discussion on the information architecture of the IDRC website redesign. I am hoping to split our hour together with two main chunks:
Link here, if you'd like to look in advance: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1VsW0vB1PF-gQn8fAMmPKRpny3DbhPXLkjBxxycqzDoU/edit?usp=sharing While this discussion should stay fairly open, if you're someone who likes to have a few questions to guide your feedback, you can consider these:
Here is the wiki page for the IDRC website: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/IDRC+Website+Redesign+2019 And here are the notes from the crit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6jXBCSYazTKxc6lT6gkWZ4E8jTZOXEduFm1iI1BYnI/edit?usp=sharing |
"Big Data" and "AI" for Africa's Voices Foundation | Community Workshop | July 31, 2019 | Luke Church will speak to us about his recent work on big data and AI with Africa’s Voices Foundation and his research as a human-centric programming language designer. | |
Adding new features to UIO Part 2 | Design Crit | Justin | July 30, 2019 | We will be continuing our discussion on new UIO features. |
ILDH design refresh critique | Design Crit | Caren Watkins | July 24, 2019 | We’ll be doing a design critique of the upcoming redesign for the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook (ILDH). |
Video: Graphic Means | Community Workshop | Lisa | July 17, 2019 | We will be watching the film Graphic Means. Description: It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various ingenious machines and tools that brought type and image together on meticulously prepared paste-up boards, before they were sent to the printer. Graphic Means, explores graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF. |
Adding new features to UIO | Design Crit | Justin | July 16, 2019 | Examples:
We will review the new Prefs Framework and UIO+ preferences (letter spacing, word spacing, syllables, text-to-speech, simplify, captions, localization) to determine which should be added to the standard UIO configuration.
We will also discuss the “prefers-color-scheme” and “prefers-reduced-motion” CSS media features in relation to their use with the preferences framework. |
ILDH | Design Crit | Caren Watkins | June 25, 2019 | Welcome to the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook | Inclusive Learning Design Handbook Structure maps: Existing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mYdTv3KK_zwaV88PMHi-KmoQOjLZltKZaTPEFLD2FZQ/edit Proposed https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TiEqHCYyoVnGb7kbYJAfRh1-EfaVUMgBUANoWndNnww/edit WireType or ProtoFrame (wireframe and prototype hybrid ) mobile layout early iteration of navigation and organization for feedback: https://xd.adobe.com/view/904a8db3-b00c-41e1-665c-13548bff0639-e67b/ We will be taking a look at early redesign work being done on the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook including changes to navigation, information architecture, and discoverability. |
Usability testing | Design Crit | Cheryl | June 25, 2019 | We will be talking about usability testing in an inclusive design context. This hour will be dedicated to critiquing usability testing, and discussing questions such as: What exactly are the problems with usability testing? Are there certain contexts that are better for usability testing than others? What is usability testing good for?How can we re-imagine usability testing to be more inclusive? |
Designing for Contrast Themes | Design Crit | Cheryl | June 18, 2019 | We will be talking about contrast themes and how incorporate them into designs. |
Accessibility at TPL | Community Workshop | Winona McMorrow | May 22, 2019 | Description: Toronto Public Library is committed to providing equitable access to library service that meets the changing needs of all Torontonians including people with disabilities in a welcoming environment. This talk will offer information about accessibility at TPL and invite the inclusive design community to share perspectives and ideas about accessibility and inclusion in the public library. |
Feedback for upcoming co-design session | Community Workshop | Ample Labs | May 15, 2019 | Description: Ample Labs is a nonprofit group creating technology to empower those experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. They are co-designing their projects and products with the community and have a session coming up with Sherbourne Health Centre’s Supporting Our Youth program for LGBTQ newcomer and immigrant youth. They’re hoping to get feedback from IDRC on the facilitation and activities for this upcoming session. |
Coordinating and communicating design crits and community workshops | Design Crit | Jon, Gregor, Lisa | May 7, 2019 | We will be talking about how the community design crits (hosted on Tuesdays) and the community workshop (hosted on Wednesdays) are organized and conducted. We will talk about the current state of these meetings and come up with ideas to improve them. |
Guru app | Design Crit | Michelle | April 30, 2019 | Description: "Gooru Learning Navigator with particular emphasis on learning differences. The Learning Navigator is a “GPS for Learning” — a way for each student to follow their own path to mastery. Schools ask every student to achieve the same level of proficiency, but each student begins with a different set of knowledge and skills. The Learning Navigator meets each student exactly where they are and navigates them to their learning goals." |
Clinic for Open Source Arts | Community Workshop | Christopher Coleman | April 24, 2019 | Description: The Clinic for Open-Source Arts explores, supports, and celebrates local and global efforts to make free and open-source tools that allow people to be creative with digital technology. |
Sign to text / audio | Design Crit | Ade | April 16, 2019 | Ayoade (Ade) Adetokubo from the University of Cincinnati will be sharing a project supporting pharmacists with sign-to-text / voice.
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Various topics relating to inclusive design and design management | Community Workshop | Johan Verstraete | April 3, 2019 | Johan Verstraete will be joining us to discuss various topics relating to inclusive design and design management. We will have a sign-language interpreter available to facilitate communication. |
National Young Farmers Coalition beta app | Community Workshop | Lindsey Lusher Shute, Michael Parker, Dan Stone | March 27, 2019 | Description: The National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) is an American national advocacy network of young farmers fighting for the future of agriculture. |
Co-design activities discussion | Design Crit | Sepideh, Cheryl | March 26, 2019 | We will be having a discussion about our recent co-design activities and sharing our experiences and discover possible ways to improve or do things differently. |
Beverley School staff visit to IDRC | Community Workshop |
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More than a feeling? Scientific evidence on perceiving music through a sense of touch. | Community Workshop | Sean Gilmore | March 13, 2019 | Description: With advancements In technology the idea of inclusivity within music has become more possible than ever before. This talk discusses the technology and science behind the idea that deaf communities may be able to experience music through a sense of touch. |
CBC digital documentary series Red Button | Community Workshop | Jonathan Jude | March 6, 2019 | Description: Red Button is a ground-breaking and innovative CBC digital series where young Canadian documentary subjects become the filmmakers, providing remarkably honest perspectives of marginalized and misunderstood communities |
The Why, Who, What, When, Where & How of our Inclusive Design Theory and Practice: making it easier to find, navigate and apply our inclusive design guidance. | Design Crit | Jutta | February 26, 2019 | Jutta will be talking about: "The Why, Who, What, When, Where & How of our Inclusive Design Theory and Practice: making it easier to find, navigate and apply our inclusive design guidance". |
Tech-Inclusion: Developing Coding Classes for Deaf Youths. | Community Workshop | Claudia McKoy | February 20, 2019 | “Tech-Inclusion: Developing Coding Classes for Deaf Youths” will be facilitated by Claudia McKoy of Creative Amnesty. Creative Amnesty is an UpSurgence initiative that focuses on finding practical ways to include marginalized communities into our emerging tech-based economy. Last fall, the Creative Amnesty’s team worked with community leaders, interpreters and coding educators to design coding classes that were accessible for Deaf children. At this Wednesday’s Inclusive Design research Centre community meeting at OCAD University, we are inviting the community to join in a discussion to explore how to best develop our coding classes to ensure that they are highly accessible, impactful, and cost effective. We are also seeking insights on the best tools use and what resources we ought to access to scale the project to ensure as many children as possible can enjoy the benefits of the program. Our discussion will include three key areas of focus:
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Chronopoetical Systems of Sounding Vision, All at Once: a residency at Signal Culture | Community Workshop | Colin Clark | February 13, 2019 | |
Platform Coop Website | Design Crit | Cheryl, Dana | February 12, 2019 | Dana and Cheryl will be sharing the designs for the platform coop website. Website prototype on mobile: https://invis.io/JMPX498CW7H#/340267216_01-Landing_Page
Feedback spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YowOmLOwtfvA6miLJq3dHGdUaawpI0xQzLrAAbmDrzw/edit?usp=sharing |
SEWA Home Beauty Services Coop | Design Crit | Dana | January 29, 2019 | Dana will be sharing the latest website designs for the Self-Employed Women's Association (or "SEWA") home beauty services coop. These designs are a result of co-design sessions that took place in Ahmedabad in November 2018. |
Ample Labs: Using technology to empower individuals experiencing homelessness. | Community Workshop | Cheryl Li, CG Chen, Matt Wong | January 23, 2019 | Presented by Ample Labs, a social startup committed to using technology to empower individuals experiencing homelessness.
Ample Labs was born out of a pilot project called HomeTO and a desire to contribute to our local community here in Toronto. Their work was originally inspired by social initiatives like San Francisco’s Link-SF as well as broad research showing that even when experiencing homelessness, most people rely heavily on smartphones to find vital information. Since then, the team has grown to include a dedicated and diverse group of designers, developers, researchers, consultants, public servants, and community members—all united by a common commitment to using tech for social good. Website: https://www.amplelabs.co/ |
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Design Crit | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | January 22, 2019 | The Law and Design Co-Lab will be sharing a design and asking for feedback related to the Ontario Standard Form Lease redesign. |
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Community Workshop | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | January 16, 2019 | In January 2018, the Ontario government released a Standard Form Lease for residential tenancies. This was a great step towards promoting fairness in residential leases. However, we believe the document itself can be better-designed and made more accessible. Inspired by the UK’s redesign project for residential tenancies in 2014, we are engaging legal experts, advocates and community members in a co-design process to develop a digital-first re-design of the Standard Form Lease that is accessible, interactive, and grounded in community concerns and realities. Website: http://lawdesigncolab.ca |
Storytelling Tool Demo and Feedback | Design Crit | Sepideh | January 15, 2019 | https://pad.gpii.net/p/storytelling-testing-o6p4nsv https://stories.floeproject.org/ conducting some user testing of the latest version of the Storytelling Tool and discussing the outcomes of that process. A wireframe of the design can be accessed here (Image PDF). |
GSoC 2019 Brainstorming | Community Workshop | Alan, Cindy | January 9, 2019 | |
SJRK Web Accessibility Review | Design Crit | Lisa, Silvia | January 8 2019 |