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A 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on UX community events and mentorship for women & non-binary folks online and IRL. Join or start a chapter today 🌎

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2015
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Please save the date for our next event! Join our amazing guest speakers Olya Kenney and Virginia Pollock as they discuss Digital Accessibility Program: Strategy, Process, Management, Governance, and Adoption at Scale on June 9th. Sign up here: meetup.com/hexagon-ux-dc-cha…
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Love to hear it!👏🏽
Learning tonight about how to make data visualization more accesible for those with disabilities! So cool and very awesome to be around so many people passionate about accessibility. @HexagonUX
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Happy International Women’s Day! Today is a day to celebrate the achievements, wins, and strides of women everywhere. It is also a day to raise awareness about the challenges women still face today. This year for IWD we want to encourage our community to continue to #BreakTheBias
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In our mission to empower UXtraordinary women, we're giving away one scholarship to a deserving woman. 💙 Submissions close at midnight March 10th. For more details and to apply, head here: ixdf.typeform.com/bc-scholar… #InternationalWomenDay
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Who are the most inspiring female UX Design leaders to you?
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When you start a new job, you'll often get a list of people to talk to and links to look at. Each time, I get more intentional about how I handle this firehose of information. Sharing a quick thread here in case it's helpful to others 👇🏻
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Hi folks! What is one thing about @figma that you would like to know? I’m looking for questions like “how do you do X” or “why did you do Y” rather than feature requests.
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Anyone been in a #design slump lately? Check these out for some quick #inspo ⬇️
What's your go-to site when you're looking for design inspiration?
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A question for the design community - What are the top design theories (movements, ways of knowing etc) that you think emerging designers should know?
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This week on the Design To Be Conversation podcast, @sabrinahallnyc, Senior Product Design Manager at @Etsy, talks with our founder & CEO @racheldweissman about how to give feedback that reduces harm. Head to designtobeconversation.com to listen!
🗓Feb 24, 7pm ET ✅See you all at the “Being Black in Tech” panel hosted by @hexux_boston in partnership w/ @BTPipeline @DiversifyTechCo @BlackGirlsCode 🙌🏽 Click ⬇️for details!
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We’re kicking off our celebration of #BlackDesignHistory by honoring Dorothy Hayes, an influential graphic designer from the 1950’s. Hayes was a role model for Black artists and even organized the “Black Artists in Graphic Communications” in order to spotlight black artists!
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This question 🙌🏽 thank you @reg_inee!
If a person never learned how to dream or set goals for themselves-where do they start?
Over the last six months I've gone through a few heavy interview rounds at some of the biggest companies in the world. I'd not interviewed for six years! So I was also learning a lot about what the industry looks like now as a job hunter. Sharing my learnings 🧵
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To become a well-spoken designer, you've got to learn the proper terms for all of the UI components. This will allow you to freely communicate with stakeholders, engineers, and your colleague designers. Check out the list with definitions : docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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To our early stage #UX-ers looking for their next opportunity, you got this! 🙌🏽 #design #jobs earlystagedesignjobs.com/
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When designing a product for everyone, you need to take into account the diverse everyday experiences that impact the people who use it. Check out the Heuristics Toolkit on the blog to learn how teams can design and build with constraints top of mind. spoti.fi/AssessingConstraint…
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Here’s your reminder that changing careers doesn’t mean you’ve failed. When your life goals change, it’s natural to want your career to align with your new plans.