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The Challenge

One of the biggest challenges people face in designing for positive change is moving from good intentions to concrete actions.

“Where can we start? It all feels so overwhelming!” ”What tools, best practices and frameworks can help us put things into practice?” ”We don’t know how to do this — who is already doing this work that we can learn from?”

There are so many wonderful resources that already exist. But it can be difficult to find them. Existing resource libraries often go out of date and can be overwhelming to navigate through with long lists of resources.

<aside> 💡 **What is Design for Positive Change? ****To start, we’re defining it as designing for diversity & inclusion, accessibility, equity & justice, ethics and care & healing. We would be eager to see this evolve and expand over time to include other responsible practices, such as sustainability, circular design, futures/speculative design and beyond.

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Our Goals

We aim to build a resource library through co-design that closes these gaps. Our goals are to:

• Make the universe of resources on designing for positive change easier to access and navigate through thoughtful curation, categorization and personalization
• Surface a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences, with a central focus on those from historically marginalized groups
• Honor the individuals who have brought these resources to life
• Make code, process and learnings transparently accessible to a wider community of creators, designers and developers

Our Vision for the Library

We envision building a library that is a portal to a multiplicity of perspectives, learnings, approaches, people and communities on design for positive change.

Ideally, it will be:

• Free.
• Open-source.
• Built by the community for the community.
• Interactive and dynamic.
• Thoughtfully curated and categorized.
• Regularly updated.
• Searchable and personalizable.
• Designed with inclusion, accessibility and equity at heart.

*Current Barebones Library - our plan is to rebuild this from scratch*

Our Team’s Mantra: “Subvert the Status Quo...with Care”

We are a scrappy two-person team (for now). We don’t have any funding or resources but are hoping to harness the power of co-design to bring this vision to life. We’ll have to make realistic tradeoffs along the way in line with the resources at our disposal (not just in terms of time and skills but also physical, mental and emotional well-being).

We will publicly document and share our progress, learnings and challenges as we build to benefit the wider product & design community. We want to subvert the notion that it's not possible to design for accessibility, inclusion and equity when you have limited resources or are building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).