24NTC Field Notes: Day 3
A really great NTC wrapped up with more good sessions about calm tech, language justice, and user testing. Then I spent a super fun weekend in Portland with my family.
Translations
Just Because You Can…
You probably know the phrase and how it ends. Sadly, not all web developers who build website tools have users’ best interests in mind (or at least they didn’t stop to think about all of them). It’s up to us all to avoid using common and popular features that shouldn’t be.
Thoughtful Forms and Interfaces [link]
Last week’s post discussed how some practices and people—mostly straight white men—can blatantly make women feel unwelcome in the technology sector. This week’s post links to two articles about much subtler ways in which website interfaces themselves can marginalize people.