Anna Cook, M.S.

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As a Senior Designer at Microsoft, Anna specializes in building inclusive products…

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    TechGirlz Charitable Foundation

    - 1 year 9 months

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    Teaching design and development workshops to middle school girls to help inspire them to explore the possibilities of technology to empower their future careers.

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  • Your Wordle Results Are Annoying, but Not for the Reasons You Think

    Slate

    For some, Wordle is one of the small comforts we’ve found to bring joy to our day-to-day lives during the pandemic. For others, the grids of green, yellow, and gray square emojis as players share their results on Twitter are a nuisance interrupting their feed. And for others, these posts go beyond annoying—they’re inaccessible.

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  • Designing with ketchup: What tools do designers use?

    UX Collective

    The beauty of the work we do as designers is solving real problems, communicating our ideas, scaling our efforts, and empowering our users. We do this work to impact the world around us, not to say we know how to use a tool. Keep in touch with your humble beginnings and design with ketchup (as necessary).

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  • There’s no such thing as fully automated web accessibility

    UX Collective

    Websites cannot be made fully accessible with automated solutions. Protect yourself and your company from buying an ineffective product that claims it makes websites accessible.

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  • Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility

    Deque

    Design systems are a crucial part of building accessible experiences. Each atom, molecule, and organism we create in our systems affects our ability to scale upwards and meet disabled people’s needs. Learn how to audit components for accessibility issues from design to code using plugins, best practices, and testing tools.

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  • Do stories make social media more addictive?

    UX Collective

    “[Stories are] a collection of images and short videos, with optional overlays and effects, that a user can add to over time, but which disappears after 24 hours. Users view a Story in sequence, either waiting out a programmed delay between images or manually advancing to the next.”

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  • Manipulative UX in webcomics

    UX Collective

    Webtoon, and similar experiences, have re-written the model of comic consumption entirely. We'll talk about the manipulative patterns that Webtoons and other online comic publishers use to increase engagement and profits.

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  • The inspirational case for web accessibility

    UX Collective

    “What inspired you to become an accessibility advocate?” The true inspirational case for accessibility is not one story but many. I am an accessibility advocate because each of us needs to be.

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  • How to make your online and blended classes more accessible

    UX Collective

    As we prepare our materials for this semester, and every semester, we need to ask ourselves how we can make our courses usable for all students, including those with disabilities. The reality is that universal design and accessibility will be primary considerations for course design as long as we have people to teach.

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  • 8 common questions about accessible UX

    UX Collective

    As UX designers, it is our responsibility to make our experiences as usable as possible, which also means considering inclusive design needs. The truth is that inclusive design is just better design.

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  • Inclusive by design: beyond binary

    The Next Web

    Something I’ve been ruminating on for a long time is our lack of gender options when users register for products and services. I’m not the first one to notice this, but it’s still happening, and it’s more prevalent than we realize.

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  • 5 ways to start improving diversity in tech now

    UX Collective

    We know diversity gaps exist in the tech industry, we know they affect our organizations, and due to the reach of technology in this era, we know that the gaps affect a broad population. So what can we actually do now to make a change within our organizations?

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  • The state of diversity in tech

    UX Collective

    Over the course of years in UX Design, I have both witnessed and experienced the issues that come from a lack of diversity in tech. I am sure you have too. This series is about the lack of diversity in tech and how this gap affects our organizations, including the products we release.

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