Good Intentions, Bad Interfaces: A Designer’s Guide to Making Pixels Matter

Hosted by IxDF Zurich

Nov 12th, 2025

5:30pm - 8:00pm (UTC +01:00)

Pelikanstrasse 6, Zurich

7 IxDF Members (and some non-members) are attending

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This is a free Local Group meetup

Attendance is free.

You don't have to be a member to attend.

What are Local Groups?

Local Groups will expand your career network—whether you are interested in learning new skills, finding job opportunities or looking for a new employee.

A Local Group is a group of people who, like you, are passionate about design. Local Groups organize meetings to get inspired, have fun and learn from one another.

Meetup Details

Designers kick off projects with the best goals in mind: clarity, inclusivity, and a dash of joy. But somewhere between the brainstorm and the final delivery, those good intentions can get buried under bugs, deadlines, and “urgent” requests and the result isn’t always what anyone hoped for.

This talk digs into the moments when small design choices ripple into big consequences for people and the planet. We’ll share stories from both corporate and humanitarian work, unpack common failure modes, and leave you with a compact, practical list of actions to make interfaces more socially responsible and environmentally conscious. No guilt trips — just clear, usable ideas you can apply tomorrow.

RSVP Required

50 spots available. Signup required due to building access policies. Please register with your full name and email address so we can add you to the guest list.

🎤 Featured Talk
Good Intentions, Bad Interfaces — A Designer’s Guide to Making Pixels Matter
Speaker: Caroline Santos, Senior Design Consultant, UNICEF Office of Innovation

What you’ll take away:

Understand how small design decisions can create large real-world effects.
Learn concrete patterns for data dignity, accessibility, and constraint-driven design.
Leave with a short harm-checklist and micro-practices you can run in your next sprint.

About the Speaker

Caroline Santos is a Senior Design Consultant at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, applying Human-Centered Design to improve education outcomes in the Global South. With over a decade of experience across corporate and non-profit organisations, she focuses on making design and processes work for inclusion and measurable impact.

Agenda

17:45 — Doors open
18:10 — Reception closes
18:15 — Welcome IxDF Zürich
18:30–19:00 — Featured talk: Caroline Santos — Good Intentions, Bad Interfaces (30 min)
19:00–19:15 — Open Mic / Audience insights + Q&A (15 min)
19:15–20:00 — Informal networking (45 min)

Meetup Conversation

Ananya Pandya

Hi all! Please use this conversation thread to discuss Good Intentions, Bad Interfaces: A Designer’s Guide to Making Pixels Matter held on Nov 12, 2025. Feel free to ask questions about the place, date and time, agenda of the meeting, or anything else.

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