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If you are involved in the creation of digital products and services, this playbook is for you. It is an essential guide to help you create inclusive, equitable digital solutions. This means delighting more customers, regardless of their abilities, backgrounds, or contexts.
The playbook is packed with:
📝 Guidance and insights.
✅ Principles and concrete actions.
💡 Research and examples.
📙 Resources and frameworks.
The tech sector is renown for a relentless focus on growth and scale. Yet, this inevitably leaves people behind. With this playbook at your side, you will be able to create products and services that work for more people, more of the time.
Benefits of inclusive innovation
Inclusive products are great for end-users, and also the companies that create them. By designing inclusive products and services for diverse audiences organisations can:
💹 Tap into new markets.
😁 Increase customer satisfaction.
❤️ Improve brand reputation.
💡 Drive innovation.
🌎 Have a positive social impact and make the world a better place.
Inclusive practices can lead to a more diverse and engaged workforce, which is critical for fostering a culture of innovation.
At the core of it, product inclusion and equity are about making people feel seen. When they pick up a product or use a service or piece of technology, they feel like they were thought of when it was created. They feel like the different things that make them them were part of the design and development process. This leads to tech doing what it is intended to do: amplify people’s lives and make them richer.
Annie Jean-Baptiste, Director of Product Inclusion & Equity at Google
Innovation in digital products and services
In this Inclusive Innovation Playbook, we focus on innovation indigital products and services across all sectors.
As the world becomes increasingly digital, products and services must be accessible and usable for a diverse range of users. Yet, many organisations do not have the expertise or resources to consider the diversity of user needs. This playbook is designed to help bridge that gap.
Historically, inclusive practices have not been commonly integrated into innovation activities. We have created this playbook to change this!
Use it to start your journey towards adopting more inclusive practices and creating more inclusive and equitable digital solutions.
If you’d like support embedding inclusion into your people, products and practices,