Before planning a co-design session, it’s important to understand if it’s the right research method for your team. Lead UX Designer Shannon Baird explains more about this unique and valuable practice.
But what does it take to create equitable user experiences?
ITX is committed to making accessibility a non-negotiable part of our software development services. However, to move, touch, and inspire the world, we need to walk the walk with inclusive design.
This meant creating with a whole new ITX.com.
After publishing our Getting Started With Product Inclusion eBook, we asked CPACC-certified Accessibility Solutions Specialist Susi Pallero to audit our website. She identified our accessibility flaws. With a to-do list in hand, we reimagined ITX.com to be accessible to all people.
Product Inclusion in Practice: A New ITX.com is a transparent look into our website redesign journey. In this downloadable resource, you’ll read about:
We’re here to be your travel companion as you start your accessibility journey. Download our guide for an inside look into our website transformation. If you need a hand along the way or are interested in a product inclusion consultation, contact us at [email protected].
Product inclusion is the competitive advantage your business may be missing. Learn what this people-first business imperative is and why it’s mission critical for every business.
Embedding inclusive design and user accessibility into our everyday ways of working starts with us designers. At ITX, we walk the talk and take our commitments seriously. So when we learned about the 2021 Design + Diversity Conference, we made a point to show up – in force.
The 3-day, virtual event featured a diverse set of speakers and attendees. Conference keynotes addressed the following topics, each fundamental to the growth and acceptance of inclusive design…
Whether you’re building products for hundreds, thousands, or millions of individuals, design that provides as many points of access as you have users is no longer a nice-to-have. For reasons based not only in social responsibility but in sound business management, inclusive design is a must. And embedding it into our everyday ways of working begins with the designers and design teams whose duty it is to carry the banner forward.
Over the past few years, the UX design team at ITX started thinking about adopting a more inclusive lens in our work and soon came to realize why it was so important to us as designers, but also as human beings.
ITX Corp.’s Remote-First Culture Eases Transition To A New Normal
“ITX is a remote-first workplace,” marked the first words uttered by my HR contact during our initial screening interview. If they’re going to start the conversation with that, I thought, it must be pretty important.
Over that past couple years – but especially the past couple weeks – I’ve learned exactly how important these words truly are.
ITX UX 2019: Beyond the Pixels Conference Takeaways
ITX UX 2019: Beyond the Pixels design conference created one of those potentially historic moments. The kind of moment that, looking back years from now, we may realize the true measure of its significance.
The momentum is building! ITX is in full growth mode; we’re designing our snazzy new digs in downtown Rochester’s Innovation Zone; and soon we’ll be celebrating all the excitement and more during our 2nd annual ITXUX2019: Beyond the Pixels design conference, Oct. 3-5. We’re psyched for you to join us and our amazing guest speakers for three awesome days of intimate workshops, dynamic keynotes, and plenty of networking with your colleagues and newfound friends.
Are you ready to pull the trigger and reserve your seat? Or are you still wondering whether ITXUX2019 is right for you? Fair question. But once you check out our line-up of guest speakers and their many accomplishments, you’ll realize we designed this UX conference with specifically you in mind.
Still not convinced and looking for more? Well look no further than this post. Cuz we’ve asked the experts – our fellow ITXers – what they love to do when they’re not creating great software. As you’ll see, just like UX design the options are limitless!
The product manager role has been around for decades, but its contributions have been generally overlooked and misunderstood. Opportunities to apply the product manager skill set as a lever of growth had not been fully realized – or were missed entirely. No longer is that the case, according to the 2019 State of Product Leadership report, prepared by Pendo + Product Collective.
In this episode, hosts Sean and Joe speak with Pendo Chief Marketing Officer Jake Sorofman about the recent report and the continuous evolution of the product manager role. “It’s a role on the rise,” Jake says, “but also one in a state of transition. It’s only in the last 10 years that digital product management has really come into focus as a very strategic part of the business.”
How do we know our work is working? How do product designers know their work product is solving the problem it was intended to solve? That’s the kind of question that keeps us up at night.
As designers, developers, and product managers, we have to ask ourselves: just how well are we communicating with our customers? Are we part of the solution or part of the problem? In what ways can we use our communication skills to design better experiences for our customers?