Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

UX & Design Speed Dating Clinic

Stuck on how to build or communicate a feature? Not sure how to get user feedback? Want to brainstorm some design alternatives for your tool or process? Thinking about how to engage users in your design process? Then this workshop is for you!

In the session, participants will have the opportunity to meet with design and usability practitioners in the community. We will setup 10-15 minute "speed dating" time slots and allow participants to rotate through the presenters so that they can get feedback from multiple perspectives on whatever design and UX challenges they bring to share.

Participants should bring something to share their work with the UX practitioners (an idea, a problem to work on, design sketches, a prototype, whatever stage you are at! etc), and will leave with feedback, designs, tools, strategies, and follow up opportunities to get support in their work.


What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:

In the session, participants will have the opportunity to meet with design and usability practitioners in the community. We will setup 10-15 minute "speed dating" time slots and allow participants to rotate through the presenters so that they can get feedback from multiple perspectives on whatever design and UX challenges they bring to share.

Participants should bring something to share their work with the UX practitioners (an idea, a problem to work on, design sketches, a prototype, whatever stage you are at! etc), and will leave with feedback, designs, tools, strategies, and follow up opportunities to get support in their work.

We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:

We try to do UX Clinics at every conference we can to support folks and continue to build a peer community of practitioners. Post MozFest, participants can continue to engage in the community by joining the Simply Secure slack community and participating in the Human Rights Centered Design monthly community calls.

How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:

The session format is very flexible and scalable! We will adjust the feedback session times, or recruit more practitioners if we are worried about numbers and time based on participation.

Ashley Fowler currently leads several initiatives at Internews, focusing on usability in open source tools, organizational security, and digital security training for at-risk communities.

exec dir @simplysecureorg, advisor @MeasurementLab @CongressFellows, alum @OTI #UX #design #data #dataviz #visualization #internethealth #urban #open

As the Design and UX Lead at Access Now, Sage Cheng leads the organization's design and creative strategy for campaigns and web development for digital engagement.

Molly is a designer and researcher with Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. She focuses on adapting UX design methods to help support creators of nonprofit tech.

Founder of The New Design Congress, an international digital infrastructure research group. Design and security researcher for 10 years. Prototyped Signal in 2014 and led design at Tactical Tech.

Designer working in for-profits and then moving into NGO's and open source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace building and crisis response technology.

Shirin Mori is a designer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, working on usability, graphics, and educational materials.