About this project
Women Who Design is a Twitter directory of accomplished women in the design industry. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to follow on Twitter by parsing Twitter bios for popular keywords.
Source code
Women Who Design is happy to support new directories highlighting underrepresented or marginalized groups. If you’re looking to start a similar effort, feel free to fork the project on GitHub.
Similar directories
Examining diversity along the axis of gender is one small piece of the puzzle. If you’ve found this site to be valuable, please take a look at the work of friends in the industry building similar efforts.
API Who Design
Blacks Who Design
Brazilians Who Design
Filipinos Who Design
Indians Who Design
Latinxs Who Design
People of Craft
Queer Design Club
Rememory
How to use
Here are some things Women Who Design can help you with:
Use proporti.onl to check the ratio of the people you follow on Twitter.
If you’re following more men than women, use this project to follow new women and diversify the voices in your feed. Be aware that a feed of white women is not diverse.
If you’re a hiring manager, use this project to find candidates.
Examine the ratio of senior men to senior women in your organization. Are women of color equally represented? Consider hiring women into promotions above their current role.
If you’re organizing a conference, use this project to find speakers.
Ensure that the women’s speaking slots are as prominent as the men’s. Are women of color equally represented? Consider reaching out to women who have never given a talk before.
If you have a podcast, use this project to find new guests.
Be mindful of interruptions and ensure that your women guests get equal speaking time. Are women of color equally represented? Consider inviting women who don’t already have an audience.
Further reading
For becoming a better ally – to women, people of color, LGBTQ, disabled, ESL or any other marginalized group.
- Guide to Allyship by Amélie Lamont
- How to Build Inclusive Culture by Nicole Sanchez
- Be a Pal, My Dudes by Erika Hall
- What Does Sponsorship Look Like? by Lara Hogan
- Some Garbage I Used to Believe About Equality by Johnathan Nightingale
Other notes
Support
Women Who Design is an independent project. If you’re interested in supporting it, please consider posting a job.
Opt out
If you’ve been featured in the directory and you’d rather not be, please send a DM to @womenwhodesign on Twitter and you will be removed.
Special thanks to Netlify for their support.