Starting your journey, common ground and self-care
at Mentorship Launch
Type
talk
The speaker says mentoring can be formal or informal and that a mentor need not be in the workplace. The speaker recommends UX Brighton's speed-matching event as one route into finding a mentor. The speaker describes sharing coping mechanisms and alternative techniques with a dyslexic mentee. The speaker says she and a mentee are both neurodiverse and can share lived experience. The speaker includes work-life balance among the workplace boundaries mentors should help mentees understand. The speaker makes self-care part of the mentoring journey and says mentors should give some time back to themselves.
People
Jessica Squires
Methods
Inclusive DesignInclusive design identifies who an experience excludes and involves people with different abilities and perspectives in shaping it. Start by examining assumptions and mismatches between a person and the product or environment. Work with people who experience those barriers, then explore solutions that address their needs and may benefit others. Use this approach throughout product and service development, including decisions about interaction, communication and participation. Revisit whose perspectives are missing as the design evolves.