Build an Inclusive Tech CommunityUsing Product Design Principles

Mary ScottonPrincipal Developer Evangelist, Salesforce

@rockchick322004mscotton@salesforce.comwww.maryscotton.com

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What is Inclusion?

Privilege

Diversity

Inclusion

PrivilegeAccess to benefits based on traits you possess that you don’t control

Privilege Continuum = Facets of DiversityAbility

Aesthetic

Citizenship

Gender

Orientation

Racial

Religious

Socio-economic

TEDxEMU - Justin Ford - Pedagogy of Privilege

DiversityEveryone. Really.

Not just straight white able-bodied cisgender women.

InclusionThe action or state of including or of being included within a group or

structure

Product Design

Community Design

MVPFail FastUCD

MVPMinimum Viable Product

“I wanted to go to parties without getting my bum

pinched.” Geraldine Gray, Principal, Endiem

!= Diversity

Toya Gatewood

@ToyaGatewood

Fail FastTry New Things

Luminary Developer SessionsDreamforce 2016

UCD

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User-Centered Design

Go to Coffee!

MVP: create space for affinity groups; start smallFail Fast: try new things; iterateUCD: make personal connections; go to coffee DYF: diversify your feed

Mary ScottonPrincipal Developer Evangelist, Salesforce

@rockchick322004mscotton@salesforce.comwww.maryscotton.com

CODE(HER) CONFERENCE 2016

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