Community Resources

Toolkits and Templates

Critical Alphabet Deck

This deck, created by Leslie-Ann Noel PhD was designed to introduce designers and design students to critical theory and concepts to help them reflect on their design process.

Three Dimensions of Inclusive Design Framework

This is a resource created by Jutta Treviranus and her team at the Inclusive Design Research Centre that provides a guiding framework for inclusive design in a digitally transformed world.

Inclusive 101 Manual

This manual created by Microsoft outlines a comprehensive introduction to the world of inclusive design. Learn the basics and shift your design thinking towards universal solutions.

Holding Your Employer Accountable for Racial Justice

This is a template for direct and intentional communication with your employer that will support you in being intentional about holding yourself and other white people in your company accountable for racial justice.

Allyship Into Action

This toolkit for non-Black people provides a helpful framework for how can we best assist and be effective allies in the fight against police brutality and racial injustice in our daily lives.

Decolonization Toolkit

This is a toolkit created by VIDEA (a Canadian intercultural organization) and was designed to spark conversation and growth personally, professionally, organizationally, or community-wide through activities centering decolonization.

Organizations

WATB?

Where Are the Black Designers? is a volunteer-run, nonprofit design advocacy organization. They heal, support, amplify, and make space for the entire spectrum of Black creativity while decolonizing design through a variety of resources.

DxD | Diversify by Design

DXD is a coalition of program partners, NGOs, grassroots organizations, corporations, agencies, associations, education institutions, and individuals with a shared goal of significantly increasing the number of Black and Brown youth, students, and professionals in design.

Unif.ID

Unif-ID is a space for female & non-binary industrial designers to connect and collaborate. Unif.ID is a safe space to speak freely and openly. Additionally, the organization provides a directory of female and non-binary industrial designers.

Women in Industrial Design Chicago

WIID-Chicago was founded in 2019 to grow the community of female industrial designers in Chicago. Since then, the organization has grown to address the issues faced by the ID community around the world.

IDSA Women in Design

The Industrial Designers Society of America’s Women in Design special interest section supports all women and non-binary designers in achieving their full professional potential through event programming and professional resources.

Equity Design Collaborative

The Equity Design Collaborative was formed in 2017, and currently consists of six organizations with a shared goal to create equitable outcomes for marginalized communities, particularly through bottom-up organizing and institutional culture transformation.