Designing for security: research needs to include the stories of domestic abuse victims. Domestic violence is 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men. Eva PenzeyMoog #WIAD19 #wiadchi

What do we do now? 1. Include domestic abuse in scenarios. 2. Imagine scenarios for abuse. Design against them. 3. Identify opportunities for product to intervene in a safe way. Eva PenzeyMoog #WIAD19 #wiadchi

Common critiques: “Is this really our responsibility?” The answer is yes. Eva PenzeyMoog #WIAD19

Common critique of designing for domestic abuse: “won’t this stifle our creativity?” No - @sara_ann_marie says no one complains that designing cars for safety stifles creativity. Benedict Evans #WIAD19

Last up is Fen Slattery fen to discuss how to ask about gender and sex. #wiad19 #wiadchi

Fen is starting by getting us all on the same page on terms related to gender and sex. fen #wiad19 #WIADChi

The main question from fen: How should we ask about sex and gender? The answer is don’t ask! #wiad19 #wiadchi

There are some valid reasons to ask for gender or sex - medical purposes, demographics, inclusion data, EEOC, insurance and risk, online dating. fen #wiad19 #wiadchi

There are many bad reasons to ask for gender or sex - style preferences, curiosity, social networking, advertising, “just in case.” fen #wiad19 #wiadchi

Fen is helping the room understand what it feels like to be asked gender on a form when you’re non-binary or transgender. If we’re asked our age and got four options and HAD to choose one. fen #WIAD19 #wiadchi

If you do have to ask gender and sex: 1) Take only the data you need. 2) Don’t require a response. 3) Explain your purpose and privacy policy. 4) Ask the right question. 5) Give the right options. fen #WIAD19 #wiadchi

If you need to ask sex for a medical reasons have radio buttons with male, female, intersex. For gender, have an open text field. fen will fight your developer if they complain about data sanitizing #wiad19 #wiadchi

Ask for prounouns if that’s what you need. Radio buttons with common pronoun options (she/her/hers, they/them/their, he/him/his) and open text field for something else. fen #wiad19 #wiadchi

If you need a title or honorific (v fancy) provide a list of common options with a radio button. Mx. is a common gender neutral honorific. fen #wiad19 #wiadchi

Very important reminders: 1) You can’t infer something from name, sex, gender, pronouns, or title. 2) Randomize order of options. 3) Use “something else” not “other”. 4) Take only data you absolutey need. fen #WIAD19 #WIADChi

Notably the Trevor Project intake form asks about whether a person is transgender in addition to their gender to better provide support to people asking them for help—a good reason to ask for more info #WorldIADay

Great quote from Sarah Dopp - “You have the power to influence normal.” Showing many gender and sex options on forms normalizes it even for people who don’t need those options. fen #WIAD19 #WIADChi

Visit Fen’s (fen) website for two free resources: Pronouns 101 and An Organizer’s Guide to Using Pronoun Buttons. Hope to see all WorldIADay organizers using pronoun buttons next year. #wiad19

Thank you so much World IA Day Chicago for having me and to all the attendees who shared their thoughts and stories with me afterwards! And HUGE shoutout for being so great about providing the accommodations I needed to present while going through this reaction to antibiotics.