Tech Events by UX for Change | London

Most teams are good at asking can we build it? Far fewer have a practice for asking what happens if we do? Harms mapping is that practice. It's a structured way of finding the ways a product, service or experience could hurt people, early enough that you can still do something about it. Not a compliance exercise, and not a feel-good one either. Teams that do it well find opportunities others miss, avoid expensive rework, and build things people actually trust. This is a working session, not a talk.

*An online gathering co-organized by Design Reparations, Inclusive Design Jam, Humanitarian Designers, Design Changemakers, and UX for Change.* If you are feeling grief for the future, if you reject the narratives of technocracy, authoritarianism, and ecocide, if you believe other imaginations are not only possible but our responsibility, you are not alone.

The difference between designing at people and designing with them. One is faster, more flattering, & removes the agency it meant to restore Pity and empathy look almost identical from the inside. Both feel like care. Knowing which one we are leaning into could be the difference between designing at people and not with them. This is the final session of The Unlearning Room \| [Season One]( a series of eight sessions running fortnightly on Friday mornings. You are welcome whether or not you came to the earlier ones.

Join us for a walk connecting with nature and the UX community focused on creating social impact

We treat authority as what makes leadership possible. Often it's what lets us skip the harder part: figuring it out together. Most leadership advice assumes you have authority to use well. But a great deal of leading happens without it: no title, no reporting line, nobody obliged to follow you. This is the third session of **The Unlearning Room \|** [Season One]( " a series of eight sessions running fortnightly on Friday mornings until October. You are welcome whether or not you came to the earlier ones.