About us
UX for Change was launched on March 8th 2015, at the Talk UX Conference in Manchester, UK, and is the first organisation of its kind. UX for Change emerged from the founder, Sandra Gonzalez, original challenge of how to mobilise the UX design community to get involved with the 2013 UK legislation that focused on teaching children as young as five how to code, but with no plans on teaching them how to design human-centred experiences for the improvement of their community and their own lives.
The organisation has been active for a decade across the world, and its focus has widened to meet new challenges focused on supporting positive social and planetary impact, such as utilising technology to aid refugees, providing internet safety tools and techniques for gender-diverse children, and giving consumers powerful information about their carbon footprint, to name a few.
The projects and ways in which the organisation engages the UX community have continually evolved depending on the needs and context. Still, at the core, UX for Change has always been about creating meaningful connections. We are committed to connecting the purpose-driven sector with the people interested in learning and applying responsible design practices while promoting collaboration, critical thinking, accountability, and social impact.
There are many UX for Change chapters around the world in London in the United Kingdom, Barcelona in Spain, Sydney in Australia, New York, Central Florida, Miami, and Los Angeles in the United States.
Our Vision
A world where products and services are rooted in regenerative practices, as opposed to extractivism.
Our Values
Humanitarian: We actively promote human welfare and social reform.
Reciprocal: We provide expertise to purpose-driven sectors and educate the UX community on key topics that drive positive change.
Critical-Thinking: We challenge conventional thinking. Always.
Regenerative: We aim to restore the well-being of our ecosystems and ourselves with our responsible design practices.
To learn more about our mission and values, visit our website.
Upcoming events
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The Unlearning Room | Power: how it's taken, how it's shared
·OnlineOnlineMost of us would rather not talk about power. We'd rather talk about influence, or alignment, or bringing people with us. The vocabulary changes; the thing itself doesn't.
This is the second session of Season Two of The Unlearning Room, a series of four sessions running on Friday mornings until 20 November. It follows a week after the opener, and then we break until November 6. You're welcome whether or not you came to the first.
This session holds two things next to each other. On one side, the playbook of power as control, the rules for accumulating it, protecting it and using it on people. On the other, the idea that power is something to be redistributed rather than hoarded.
Sandra tells the story of learning where her own power actually sat, and how she reached for definitions that would satisfy her understanding of how to use it.
The unlearning underneath: we are taught to think of power as something you either have or don't, when the more useful question is what you do with the amount you're holding right now.
The format is simple. No pre-read and no prep. You come ready to be present for the full hour, with no checking email or doing other work during the session. Sandra opens with a ten-minute story. No fancy slides, just a human sharing a story with other humans. She then frames it from an unlearning angle, and opens it to the group for first impressions, questions and observations. To close, she asks a single question, with the intention of giving you an unlearning device to take to work that very same day.
There are eight seats. We keep the groups small and intimate, nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves the room, because we want this experience to be unique and to honour the intentionality it deserves.
The early start is deliberate: an hour of thinking before the business of the day kicks in.
Book a ticket and the seat is yours.
I hope to see you in the room.
Sandra
6 attendees - £10.00
Nobody Asked for the Cookie Banner: The Mistake We Can’t Afford with AI
Rivington Place, Rivington Place, 1 Rivington Pl, London EC2A 3BA, UK, London, GBLast month our founder, Sandra Gonzalez, delivered a thought-provoking keynote at The Barbican for The Flux Convergence conference. She is bringing the extended version this talk to the UX for Change community.
Curious about the title? Here is the the premise. No law has ever required a cookie banner. The rules asked for informed consent and left the interface to us, and what our design profession built, collectively, is the most disliked pattern on the web. This talk is about what happened and why it can be happening again right now, as the EU AI Act starts to be rolled out. Last time the worst case scenario was a better-targeted advert. This time the stakes are much higher. Sandra will walk you through six real, documented cases and show how each one maps to a law built to prevent these type of cases to happen again, and which of those protections are already in force and which won’t arrive until 2027 or later.
This won’t be a lecture you sit through politely. It’s a provocation our founder invites the community to wrestle with, because the UX community is well positioned to be at the forefront of not making the same mistakes.
Come for the talk. Stay for the conversation.
Free spots available
We believe access to these conversations matters. If you'd like to be considered for one of the 5 free tickets, please fill out this short form: 👉https://forms.gle/YgPFKeSXtZDMVaVU95 attendees - £7.00
Nature Walk & Talk on How We Can Create Social Impact
The Princess of Wales, 146 Lea Bridge Road, E5 9RB, GBLet's take some time to go out and enjoy nature.
Join us on this unique UXers Nature Walk and learn about the area we are focused on this year to drive social impact through our Responsible Design for Change Fellowship.
Get a chance to meet our founder, Sandra Gonzalez, and some of the fellows who graduated from The Responsible Design for Change Fellowship.
This is a very wonderful opportunity to connect with nature and our community. You are welcome to bring your pet and/or your children.
We will start and end the walk at the Princess of Wales to share a drink and network a bit.
We look forward to spending a lovely morning with you.
2 attendees
Past events
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