UXDX Community:USA West

While many in the UX community are aware of inclusivity and accessible design practices, the reasons are not often fully understood.
In this session, Homer will talk through the WCAG 2.1 and how the four principles, commonly known as POUR, can be integrated into the overall process of your product team. You will walk away:

• understanding what the POUR principles are;
• how to test to accessibility & functionality of your product; and
• how to ensure that accessibility is an overall team responsibility

As you and your leadership have recognized that you need to build a DesignOps Function. But where do you start?

In this session, Z will talk talk through her journey of establishing DesignOps at Cloudflare. She will touch on:

• Where to focus as you start building the function,
• What should be prioritised,
• What challenges you will encounter (and how to address them); and
• How to ensure that the function scales with your product & teams

Participatory Design, or co-designing, is difficult at the best of times, but having to adapt this methodology to a remote setting has resulted in unique challenges. So how did the team in Uber successfully execute it?
In this session, Kendall will talk through the challenges and lessons learned when executing remote participatory design for the redesign of the home page on the Uber app. She will touch on:

• Why participatory design (pros/cons);
• What tools and processes were used to adapt to a remote setting; and
• How introducing a new methodology changed the dynamics of the team