Google’s Annie Jean Baptiste: Building better products for everyone

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As designers and design leaders, most of us understand the ethical importance of making our products accessible and inclusive for all the people who use them. But we don’t always understand the best way to go about doing this, or the business case for making it a priority.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s why we were excited to speak with Annie Jean Baptiste, Head of Product Inclusion at Google. Our recent guest John Maeda said, "If there is one voice in tech to listen to right now, it is Annie's on the material impact of inclusion in business today and in the future." </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Annie recently wrote a book called</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building For Everyone: Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team.</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">We ask her about what spurred her to write the book, along with some of the strategies she uses for researching, designing, and shipping inclusive products.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you come away from this conversation with some ideas you can bring back to your own team, to make better products for everyone. Thanks for listening.</span></p> <p><strong>Takeaways:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn about the "ABCs of Product Inclusion" which Annie writes about in her book</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hear about hiring practices to build inclusive teams</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get guidance on how to build this role into your own team.</span></li> </ul>