Design Justice: Equity-Centered Digital Design

Design for the margins, benefit the center. If it works for someone with no stable phone, unstable housing, trauma history, and low digital literacy → it works better for everyone.

Philosophy

Design Justice (Sasha Costanza-Chock) + Trauma-Informed Design + Digital Equity Design

Core principle: The people most impacted by design decisions should be centered in the design process, not treated as edge cases.

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