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Note: Meeting Time Change in 2019

The Community Design Crit will be changing meeting times to Tuesday 2pm to 3pm Eastern Time. All other meeting details remain the same (i.e. same location and web conferencing).

To Join

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Optionally, you can join the conference using the Vidyo desktop app. You can find

Schedule

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Every Tuesday at 2 PM - 3 PM ET, folks from the IDRC, Fluid community, and others get together to learn and chat about designs, design challenges, and to give feedback. Users who are remote typically join via Vidyo. Note: occasionally the design crit will not be held. Please check the schedule.

Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign

https://files.inclusivedesign.ca/s/MQ5n1mlALfb86Nw#pdfviewer

https://files.inclusivedesign.ca/s/QPMJoNHxsI2Vju5

https://files.inclusivedesign.ca/s/xNMe092pVA1OeUB

Video Recording

Video of Inclusive Cities Co-Design Activities

Recording of design crit

January 9 Design Crit - GSOC Brainstorming

Topic	Facilitator	Date	SEWA Home Beauty Services Coop	Dana	January 29	Francesca (Law & Design Colab)	January 22
Storytelling Tool Demo and Feedback	Sepideh	January 15	https://pad.gpii.net/p/storytelling-testing-o6p4nsv https://stories.floeproject.org/
SJRK Web Accessibility Review	Lisa, Silvia	January ??	http://cuentalo.org/ http://guardiaambiental.org/
IDRC Website Design - revisions and update	Jon, Michelle	Wednesday Nov. 14 1:30p to 2:30p ET.	Website Mockups
SJRK website design feedback	Avtar	Nov 6	Co-design activities template for Inclusive Cities Toolkit	Sepideh	Oct 30
DEEP Retrospective	IDRC	Oct 16	Notes
DEEP 2018 5-minute Presentation Discussion	Jon	Sep 25	DEEP 2018 Discussion	Jess, Vera	Sep 18
UI Options Word Spacing	Justin, Jon	Sep 11	Concept Icon (AI File)
UI Options Plus Orator Play Button Design	Justin	Aug 28	Demo: https://build.fluidproject.org/infusion/demos/orator/ Design Options for Orator (text-to-speech) widget
Meaningful involvement of Persons with Disabilities in WCAG Silver	Cybele	Aug 21	Slides: pdf, pptx Video Recording
Co-design Activities for Inclusive Cities	Sepideh	July 24
Personal inclusive design roadmaps for youth activist groups	Avtar	July 17	Summarizing which resources might be interesting to them and why
Accommodating new contrast themes in UIO	Justin	July 10	UI Options Demo
Technical crit of SJRK Storytelling tool	Alan, Gregor, Michelle	June 26	Trip to Colombia and the work with Karisma and the Storytelling Tool. (Part 2)	Dana / Michelle	June 19	Trip to Colombia and the work with Karisma and the Storytelling Tool. (Part 1)	Dana / Michelle	June 12
Inclusive Cities website	Eloisa	May 29	http://cities.inclusivedesign.ca
Open Platform for Citizen Neurodevelopmental Research: Part 2	Aaron Engelberg	May 15	Wireframes and project notes (Zipped PDFs)
Story Telling Tool in Two Contexts	Dana	May 8	Co-design and discuss the Sidewalk Toronto Co-design process	Sepideh/ Simon	May 1
Open Platform for Citizen Neurodevelopmental Research	Aaron Engelberg	Apr 24	Wireframes and project notes (Zipped PDFs)
Inclusive Locks and designing with children	Claire Andrews	Apr 10	Meeting notes
ILDH restructuring	Sepideh	Apr 3	Meeting notes
Co-design debrief and challenges	Sepideh / Dana / Jon	Mar 27	Co-design design crit notes
LipSync touch screen assistive device	Stewart Russell	Mar 13	http://www.makersmakingchange.com/lipsync/ Collaborative Notes
PhET Faraday's Law Keyboard prototype Wordpress Gutenburg Editor	Jon	Feb 27	Keyboard prototype for Faraday's Law (note: not fully screen reader accessible) Wordpress Gutenberg front end demo @ Tomjn
UIO Browser extension syllabification option	Justin	Jan 30
SJRK Storytelling Tool Designs	Dana	Jan 23	Mockups Notes
Bodies in Translation Knowledge Platform	Lindsay	Jan 16	Bodies in Translation Knowledge Platform
Google Summer of Code Project Brainstorming	Justin	Jan 9		Notes and Links
Sustainable Dev Goals Action Guide	Liam	Sep 24
IDRC Website wireframes	Cheryl	Sep 18	Notes
Strategies for accessible notifications on changed content	Justin, Gregor	Sep 17
Inclusive Analytics	Everyone	Aug 20	Video Recording
IDRC Website Information Architecture	Cheryl	Aug 6
Adding new features to UIO Part 2	Justin	July 30	preferes-color-scheme example preferes-reduced-motion example Mercury Parser example Video Recording
ILDH redesign and tech discussion	Caren	July 24	Video Recording Presentation Slides
Adding new features to UIO	Justin	July 16	Examples: UI Options Demo Prefs Framework Demo Localization Example Captions Example Video Recording Notes
ILDH	Caren	June 25 3pm ET	https://handbook.floeproject.org/index.html Structure maps: Existing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mYdTv3KK_zwaV88PMHi-KmoQOjLZltKZaTPEFLD2FZQ/edit Proposed https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TiEqHCYyoVnGb7kbYJAfRh1-EfaVUMgBUANoWndNnww/edit WireType or ProtoFrame (wireframe and prototype hybrid ) mobile layout early iteration of navigation and organization for feedback: https://xd.adobe.com/view/904a8db3-b00c-41e1-665c-13548bff0639-e67b/
Usability testing	Cheryl	June 25 2pm ET	Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TrnE2TdzBCWqwKd9Cxfnww8qZ0SXPpCwP2B0VOa_99A/edit
Designing for Contrast Themes	Gregor	June 18	https://docs.google.com/document/d/19x1l_Lix4xPjIsxRvpz5nkjFwkskV1hJoCy1V9qEliI/edit
Coordinating and communicating design crits and community workshops	Jon, Gregor, Lisa	May 7	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ckfIXm4CC2XzGrsCXYIS4i01ExkSm3h5N1-NyFJ-TOk Video Recording
Gooru app	Michelle	Apr 30	"Gooru Learning Navigator with particular emphasis on learning differences. The Learning Navigator is a “GPS for Learning” — a way for each student to follow their own path to mastery. Schools ask every student to achieve the same level of proficiency, but each student begins with a different set of knowledge and skills. The Learning Navigator meets each student exactly where they are and navigates them to their learning goals."
Sign to text / audio	Ade	Apr 16
Co-design activities discussion	Sepideh, Cheryl	Mar 26
The Why, Who, What, When, Where & How of our Inclusive Design Theory and Practice: making it easier to find, navigate and apply our inclusive design guidance.	Jutta	Feb 26	Video Recording
Platform Coop Website	Cheryl, Dana	Feb 12
SEWA Home Beauty Services Coop	Dana	January 29	Notes
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign	Francesca (Law & Design Colab)	January 22
Storytelling Tool Demo and Feedback	Sepideh	January 15	https://pad.gpii.net/p/storytelling-testing-o6p4nsv https://stories.floeproject.org/
SJRK Web Accessibility Review	Lisa, Silvia	January ??	http://cuentalo.org/ http://guardiaambiental.org/

Past Design Crits - 2018

Why do Critiques?

Techniques like UX Walkthroughs, Inclusive Design Mapping Tool ("Petals & Flowers"), or User States and Contexts will help us concretely assess and discuss an artifact from different perspectives. It's based on the idea that creative work gets stronger when it is discussed amongst peers and diverse ideas are considered.

Crits help us to: 

• amplify the strengths of a design
• suggest alternative trajectories
• reflect on our work through the lenses of different users
• identify areas of confusion
• focus on tangible artifacts, not just abstract ideas or goals

Sharing at a Design Crit

If you plan on sharing a design at a design crit, here are some details which may help you prepare for the discussion.

Design crits are intentionally informal and casual

We try to keep design crits very informal and casual on purpose. This makes it easier for participants to share designs (requiring less time preparing formal presentations), and opens up more time for organic conversations. A formal presentation of your project or design is not required, and we encourage a more conversational approach.

Come prepared with specific questions or ideas to share

Design crits are a great opportunity to discuss designs, refine ideas, ask questions, and get feedback. To get the most out of a design crit, come prepared with specific design issues to share - this will help focus the discussion on the topics that will help you.

Making use of available time

Design crits are intended to be 1 hour in length to help keep the discussion productive and specific. Come prepared with something to show and with questions to ask. If needed, another design crit can be scheduled to continue the discussion, or you can take advantage of the Inclusive Design Community mailing list to reach a broader audience.

Pre-Meeting Information

One to four days before each Design Crit, an email is sent to both the fluid-work and Inclusive Design Community mailing lists. These emails describe the topic of the design crit and provide instructions on how to participate. These weekly emails is a good opportunity to share any designs, presentation material, and resources in advance.