Design & Diversity: An IIDA Industry Roundtable

by Mallory Budy | May 2nd, 2016

Diversity can be seen through many lenses, and in order to understand the full picture, it’s critical that we examine every lens of the issue. Diversity is without question a huge part of our nation’s current conversation. Our country continues to become more diverse, and yet the fabric of many parts of our lives stubbornly remains isolated or engaged in adverse ways. IIDA dedicated its 2016 IIDA Industry Roundtable to the topic of Design and Diversity, and it couldn’t come at a better time. It’s crucial that we solve the diversity puzzle; the benefits of a more diverse community on all levels of life are too good to ignore. At the roundtable, 30 design industry leaders formed the inaugural IIDA Diversity Council, a group focused solely on bringing more diversity to the design industries. And the workplace is perhaps the place where diversity can make the biggest, most tangible difference. …