The Subtle Sexism of Icons

As a designer, you have to pick your battles. This is one worth fighting.

Christina Ou
3 min readAug 27, 2018

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Icons, which may seem like a small part of the digital landscape, reveal larger issues of unconscious bias in tech and beyond.

In many instances I can recall, ranging from company presentations to popular apps and websites, the main icons displayed were obviously…

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Christina Ou

Senior Product Designer @ Apollo.io. Passionate about innovative SaaS product design, cohesive user experiences, and research-driven decision making.