PROBLEM SPACE

Most usability tools focus on technical correctness or conversion outcomes. There’s a gap in the market for evaluative tools that center ethical outcomes, particularly within the design phase of digital product development. DJHC proposes a pattern-level analysis approach, helping UX teams and designers ask: Does this design support justice, accessibility, and longevity?

RESEARCH + DESIGN QUESTION

How can UX teams evaluate digital design patterns for justice-centered alignment, and what interface structures best support ethical reflection without adding friction?

GOALS + OBJECTIVES

• Extend traditional UX heuristics into justice-centered evaluation

• Translate ethical values into actionable, interface-driven UX metrics

• Prototype a diagnostic tool that enables rapid, low-friction ethical critique

• Use semantic, visual scoring to support dimensional evaluation

• Validate usability while maintaining focus on ethical design principles

• Reinforce decision-making with clear, real-time visual feedback loops

• Support heuristic thinking through minimal, guided interactions

• Design a just-in-time reflection layer to complement standard UX evaluation workflow

SITE MAP

Home

├── Upload

│ └── Upload Design Brief (PDF/Doc/Image)

└── Results

├── Justice Heuristic Score

│ ├── Sustainable

│ ├── Accessible

│ └── Equitable

└── Visual Report (Preview + Download)

Each screen reflects a single, sequential task within a minimal, guided diagnostic flow.

METHODOLOGY & DESIGN PRINCIPLES

The system was designed inspired by a hybrid of:

• Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics (for interface logic, clarity, and flow)

• Core tenets from the International Design Justice Network, including principles of community, anti-exploitation, and global knowledge practices

The framework avoids static evaluations. Instead, it encourages continuous, context-sensitive reflection — in line with DJN’s principle that “change is emergent from an accountable, accessible, and collaborative process.”