Earlier this year, as many workplaces made the rapid shift to working from home, we published “Care-based approaches to remote work” to share lessons we’ve learned and practices we’ve developed over several years of working from different locations. In the months that have unfolded since we wrote that post, we have seen the many ways […]
Journal
Journal
This is the second in our mini-series of posts about our website refresh process. You can find the first post here. Conduct Research Our people are everything 💚 We met with fifteen trusted advisors over the course of two weeks and gathered insights into their goals, experiences, and frustrations when visiting our website and other […]
It had to happen eventually — we’re redesigning our website. This is the first in a mini-series of posts that will provide a peek inside our redesign process. Starting at the end: Evaluate and iterate When we launched our current website in 2016, our primary goals were to describe what our co-design process looks […]
As we write this, cases of COVID-19 are increasing exponentially in many places around the world. In response, organizations, schools, and businesses are closing down their physical offices and urging staff to find ways to work from home to minimize the risk of exposure. Early this week, our team met to reflect on what we’ve […]
Nisa Homes’ event poster for their International Women’s Day event – We Rise by Lifting Each Other. Members of And Also Too wear many hats. Outside of the studio, production manager Zahra Agjee is a visual artist whose work deals with issues of identity, representation, and the self. She is also the founder of The […]
Recently, we submitted HairStory — Rooted: A Firm Foundation for the Future of Black Youth in Ontario’s Systems of Care to the So(cial) Good Design Awards for consideration. Although we believe competitions like these have been instrumental in shining a light on design that is happening in the social impact / social justice space, we […]
A lot has happened since we released the Building Consentful Tech zine in 2017! The zine, which offers up a framework of what consent looks like in digital spaces, has been cited in numerous publications, used as a resource in community programs and trainings around digital safety, and has inspired a prototype of reversible consent. […]
Last fall, we worked with Our Data Bodies to design a facilitation guide for people who want to transform their communities through popular education about our digital data. The Digital Defence Playbook gets people to think about ways tech affects their communities rather than trying to teach people the intricacies of how it works. In […]
One of the struggles I’ve encountered in advocating for consentful tech is the lack of real-world case studies I can point to as examples. So it’s been an exciting journey the last couple months to work with the Design Justice Network (DJN) web team on baking consent into the redesign of the DJN website. […]
This summer we worked with Mimi Onuoha and Diana Nucera (a.k.a. Mother Cyborg) to design “A People’s Guide to AI” — a popular education zine about artificial intelligence. For me, just hearing the words “artificial intelligence” was intimidating, as I knew little about the subject. However, when I heard we would be working with Mimi […]