Trajectories of Student Engagement with Social Justice-Informed Design Work

Designers are increasingly interested in using methodologies that foreground the politics of design, moving beyond product-centered notions of work that are common even within human-centered design traditions. In this paper, we document the experiences of undergraduate UX design students as they used a digital civics approach to support local community needs. We highlight how students sought to frame their design work and outcomes, describing successful and unsuccessful trajectories of engagement with social justice principles.