Intersectional Design Cards
These cards are designed to help teams explore and develop intersectional design solutions.
WHY?
- Navigate assumptions and biases
- Integrate intersectional thinking into your product
- Course correct
- Identify new markets and business opportunities
- Build an equitable, sustainable, and just society
HOW?
- To start a conversation
- To critique your product, experience, or service
- To brainstorm ideas
WHAT?
- Guide Booklet
- Intersectional factors cards
- Question cards
- Case study cards
Social Robots
Humans—whether as designers or users—tend to anthropomorphize and, consequently, gender machines (because, in human cultures, gender is a primary social category). Social robots are designed in a world alive with gender norms, gender identities, and gender relations. Social critics point out that, even though robots are plastic, most are white—and many have blue eyes, which may be problematic from an ethnic point of view.
Inclusive Crash Test Dummies
Female drivers are 47% more likely to sustain severe injuries than males in comparable crashes, when controlling for body mass. Crash test dummies have been designed to represent the mid-sized male (5’7”/ 166 lbs); the 5th percentile female dummy (4’9”/ 104 lbs) is simply a scaled-down version of this male norm. These small dummies are often placed in the passenger’s seat, which reinforces gender stereotypes and fails to protect women drivers.
