Julia Ayana Baltrip

Her Work

DesignExplorr is an education organization that celebrates design by offering activities, consulting services and resources to expose underrepresented youth to design careers. This organization stems from Design Journeys: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Design Disciplines (2016), by Jacinda Walker which explores diversity in design disciplines and presents fifteen strategic ideas to expose African American and Latino youth to designrelated careers.

Jacinda also speaks at many conferences and engagements, such as SF Design Week, IBM Ask, and numerous schools, colleges, and universities. She also hosts and presents at different workshops in various parts of the world—Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and more. She also volunteers with AIGA and serves as a chair on their Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She is available for a phone call, consultation, video conference call, and an in-person meeting via an appointment. She is willing to help when and how she can. You can be a mentee of hers too, just have to add yourself to her list.

UX Design refers to the term User Experience Design, while UI Design stands for User Interface Design. Both elements are crucial to a product and work closely together. But despite their professional relationship, the roles themselves are quite different, referring to very different parts of the process and the design discipline. Where UX Design is a more analytical and technical field, UI Design is closer to what we refer to as graphic design, though the responsibilities are somewhat more complex.

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