3 ms·
It's not just about "opinion". Diversity of gender and ethnicity is important, because many tech products fail for users who are non-male and/or non-white. Some
by lapcat 3y ago
It's not just about "opinion". Diversity of gender and ethnicity is important, because many tech products fail for users who are non-male and/or non-white. Some examples off the top of my head: facial recognition that doesn't recognize black faces, tracking technologies that ignore the issue of stalking, only giving two options "male" and "female", input fields that require US-style formats for names, phones that are too big for smaller hands, etc.
- tasubotadas 3y agoDiversity solves none of these and artificial diversity just creates divided teams.
- lapcat 3y ago> Diversity solves none of these Why not? And what would? > artificial diversity just creates divided teams. Why do you consider diversity to be "artificial"? It's actually lack of diversity that's artificial. Forget about gender and ethnicity for a second; what about the lack of age diversity in tech, and the rampant age discrimination? Oh, but it's a "meritocracy", and younger people are just "better", right? (See "Using terribly thin fonts with low contrast colors leading to unreadable websites." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38068697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38068697)
- tasubotadas 3y agoUser interviews and user testing
- lapcat 3y agoOffloading all of your design to users just shows that your team is lacking.
- cratermoon 3y agoAlso diversity of age and ability. Examples include tiny, low contrast text. On-screen controls that challenge fine motor control. Also on the US-style formats, poor or non-existent support for non-Latin alphabets. Try booking a commercial airline flight with a name that includes anything but the 26 English letters.