Sociolinguistics, Design Research, and You: How to Languate Gooder

Join me to explore the intersection of sociolinguistics - that is, how and why we talk the way we do - and design research. Learn how applying core concepts from sociolinguistics can improve the way you conduct your work. Have you ever thought about...

How the way you sound, and the words you use, might influence a research participant’s responses during testing?

How our experiences and cultural backgrounds, and those of our research participants, influence the collection and analysis of research data because of the way we speak?

Getting ‘meta’ for a moment - how we as a design research community communicate what we do - and how we may inadvertently exclude others through the language we use, turning people away from our cause?