Short Salesforce YouTube video ("Everyone" | Tech & Trust) featuring a two-person dialogue that advocates designing technology for diverse people and abilities. Speakers argue that failing to account for difference marginalizes communities and jeopardizes rights (safety, privacy), while inclusive co-creation unleashes imagination, innovation, and broader societal connections.
No two of us are alike. No one looks the same, moves the same, sees, hears or takes in information the same. No one thinks, solves problems or dreams of the future the same. We don't all share the same language, customs or culture or have the same access to information, education or self determination. So when technology isn't designed to account for difference, communities are marginalized. Fundamental rights like safety and privacy are jeopardized. What if our design considered everyone? Every kind of listener, talker, walker, player, learner, user, worker, every kind of person.
When we create for and with people of different perspectives, experiences, abilities, imagination is untethered, Innovation is unleashed. Connections are born and something unexpected happens. The effect of our collective action impacts.
More people than we could have ever imagined.
Our differences are our strength. So let's create in a way that considers everyone. Because technology has the power to unlock human potential to change the world and together we have the power to change technology.
