Developer communities are striving to become more inclusive and equitable because it's the right thing to do and good for global business. Learn how to get started designing inclusive APIs, style guides, dev portals, and documentation today.
Inclusive language is important for building community, trust, and user adoption. This is important for the future of work, technology and innovation moving forward sustainably. This list provides respectful alternatives to harmful language found in tech: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-o-8kzmk5hIoF9t7ET9w4CBDhQZax-6-oB3bhwhXdc/edit?usp=sharing
This is a compilation of harmful terms found in tech and inclusive alternatives collected over the years and mentioned in the talks below.
This is a living resource for the developer experience community for updating our language to create more inclusive products, services, and teams.
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To create a glossary of progressive industry standard terms and phrases. To create an accessible, shareable resource for engineers, user experience practitioners, and design professionals alike.
- Keep in mind everything is not on the list (yet) and this is a reference guide.
- Swap 'color', 'hacker', and other implicit words with more explicit words such as good, bad, deceiving, disrespectful, actor, etc.
- Start using new terminology now. These are intended to be easy exchanges and you will still be understood or can share the meaning of a term if asked.
- 2021: Designing Inclusive APIs, API Days London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHTWEUc-Jko&list=LLWouOWpjx4jibVZ4HyUurWw
- 2021: Designing Anti-Racism into Your Products, Lesbians Who Tech, Debug Summit https://lesbianswhotech.org/debugsummit2021/
- 2021: Designing Anti-Racism, Interaction Design Association https://interaction21.ixda.org/program/workshop--shanae-chapman
- 2020: Designing Anti-Racism, STLX Meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_TWrCDIpTE&t=20s
- 2020: Designing Anti-Racism, UXPA International, https://uxpa.org/diversity-and-inclusion-in-ux/, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-o-8kzmk5hIoF9t7ET9w4CBDhQZax-6-oB3bhwhXdc/edit?usp=sharing