Building Resilience:UX Strategies for Crisis-Responsive Tech
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Commit Global claims its open‑source humanitarian stack serves 18 million people in 2022 and it builds modular tools that deploy Doom MOA as a single entry point linking a legal guidance module for refugees, a women’s health flow, CMS for rapid updates, and a form builder for data collection; a volunteer task force spins up full deployments in less than 48 hours, and a shelter management component is live for NGOs in Mexico — designed for low literacy, offline resilience, and secure-by-design failure modes.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to crisis tech
- 1:47Human-centric design in crises
- 3:38Modular tech for adaptability
- 6:52Bias for action in solutions
- 8:20Humanitarian principles guide
- 10:10Safeguarding vulnerable users
- 11:17Trust and secure design
- 12:44Designing for failure
- 13:47Adapting to changing needs
- 15:15Low literacy accessibility
- 16:20Empowering users with tools
- 17:01Open source collaboration challenges
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