As the world continues to experience the effects of COVID-19, we are seeing record-breaking disparities worsened by the pandemic. At the same time, we’re also witnessing an uptick in investment for organizations to increase accessibility for all users and prioritize equity within their products, services, and organizations. If you are curious about incorporating accessibility and equity into your products or services, but that feels complex and costly, it shouldn’t be.

Exygy designers put together this webinar to share the learnings from our own experience of starting to dip our toes into the inclusive design water.

The fundamentals of accessibility and equity design: what it is, why it is important, and where it can be used in your organization’s products and services.

Most common myths about incorporating equitable practices and accessibility into the design process

Common challenges organizations face when adopting accessibility and equity-based practices.

Actionable first steps for bringing inclusive and accessible design practices to your organization

Ana Bel Campos, Director of Product Design, Exygy

Ana Bel has expertise in design, behavior change, measurement and analytics, user experience design, and product marketing. Ana Bel has designed products and experiences with Exygy clients such as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Ending Pandemics / Skoll Global Threats Fund. Ana Bel brings a focus on product equity to each of her projects — applying a core set of principles that connect products and services to diverse populations through human-centered design and accessibility practices. Ana Bel has an MBA in Entrepreneurship and New Business Development and a Bachelor in Social Communications with a concentration in Advertising and Publicity.

As a Director of Design, Jesse is able to satisfy his curiosity for design systems by moving swiftly between experience design and front end development. For the past 7 years, Jesse has led an array of design projects at Exygy that focus on accessibility, including re-designing the City of Oakland’s website, creating the design system for Bloom Housing — an open-source affordable housing portal, and bringing digital equity to the myriad of websites that support the San Francisco Unified School District. Before Exygy, Jesse was the creative drive and co-founder of Mister Machine where he built agile human centered prototypes for world leading organizations. Jesse earned his MFA in Visual Art from the University of California San Diego. Before discovering tech, Jesse worked as an art fabricator, industrial designer and traditional woodworker and has a garage full of tools to prove it.

Exygy partners with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives. Exygy’s work expands across sectors, including affordable housing, education, criminal justice, healthcare, and climate justice. The Exygy team puts their expertise in human-centered design and agile development to work in an effort to build products and services that prioritize the needs of our most vulnerable communities.

Demystifying Inclusive Design: What We’ve Learned About Designing More Equitable and Accessible Products