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I loved listening to Elizabeth's talk last week about how digital design often excludes the needs of older adults. It was inspiring to also hear about her personal experiences, all presented in a way that was very easy to follow - loved the presentation style! I also had the pleasure of listening to the touching stories of Kardo Ayoub and Victoria Kirk. Thank you for sharing those with us! It was a great evening to discuss #inclusivedesign and #empathy with so many bright individuals! Thank you to Jason Mesut and the IxDA for hosting us 💜
After over 12 years running IxDA London with Boon Yew Chew and our amazing volunteers, we have generally curated speakers and sessions based on who and what we felt was most interesting. It's biased, skewed, limiting, but also one of the reasons we believe we've delivered some of the best content I have experienced at meetup events. Only very occasionally, does someone approach us and say they'd like to talk about something. Maybe we have set an intimidating bar in the past? And if they do, it often sounds a bit samey, or that they just want to talk about something for their company or their agenda. I think that's fine for some events. But not IxDA London. And then something magical happened a few weeks back" Firstly, I had the wonderful Elizabeth Buie, PhD FRSA (a peer I hadn't spoken to for 12+ years) get in touch wanting to share something valuable to us all. And then a couple of days later, Kardo Ayoub — someone I had heard amazing things about over the years — approaches you with the most beautiful, and powerful story, you know something special is going to happen. And then the next week, my friend and GROUP OF HUMANS®, Victoria Kirk, talked about another personal story-driven talk she is working on in one of our Human Futures calls. Having been trying to arrange a workshop around cultural diversity for ages, I thought a practice of her upcoming TedX talk would be a great addition and tease for next year ;-) So, we have three great speakers tomorrow night at ustwo London, exploring aspects of aging, disability, cultural diversity and inclusion from some deeply personal perspectives that have compelled the desire to help others. It will be informative, useful, moving and valuable as always. But do bring some tissues or a hankie, because there could be tears. I am going to close ticket sales soon, as we'd rather keep it as intimate as possible and don't want too many people seeing me cry in public. Last few left at: https://lnkd.in/eAQ78k9j Huge thanks to our long-term sponsors Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™, ustwo, and Priya Prakash for helping get this date and venue in the diary ages ago.