We are a digital accessibility agency based in Mexico, offering global support for internet freedom projects. Our expertise includes inclusive design and development, comprehensive accessibility audits, and specialized training. Deeply committed to supporting compliance with international standards, we enhance tools, websites, and mobile apps to improve accessibility. Our mission is to empower all communities through accessible technology.

Accessibility Lab can provide services in English and Spanish.

We are a security and research design agency focused on offering human rights centered design support for privacy focused, human rights and internet freedom projects on a global scale. 

We have over a decade of experience in offering user research, design research, innovation, strategy, prototyping and accessibility guidance, with a particular focus on human rights defenders, journalists, activists, open source and community based projects, along with expertise in protecting marginalized groups experiencing different technology facilitated violence online including malware attacks and those facing online gender based violence.

Convocation Research & Design can provide services in English.

Decent Design is a multidisciplinary design research lab based in Southeast Asia. They work closely with individuals and teams from the open source, internet freedom, and decentralized and distributed web ecosystems. Through a decolonial and intersectional approach, they co-design and build respectful technologies with and for historically marginalized communities.

Decent Design can provide services in English and Vietnamese.

Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.

We are experts in discovery, user research, and UX/DX, and have more than a decade of experience working with activists and human rights defenders across the globe. We can help you refine good ideas into well-defined tools, improve existing tech through human-first research and design, and create sustainability pathways for you and your community.

Draftlab can provide services in English, Croatian (BCS) and Italian.

Kumquat is a women-led design consultancy in Cape Town. We specialize in human-centered design, UX/UI, and accessibility strategy for purpose-driven organizations.

We design for a broad spectrum of user groups across Africa and the global south. Our portfolio includes collaborations with journalists in sensitive regions like Nigeria, Egypt, and Uganda; developing programs on economic empowerment and sexual health for conservative communities; and building mobile/web designs, considering factors like Android dominance, data constraints, offline-first functionality, regulatory variations, and localized content.

Kumquat can provide services in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Afrikaans.

Localization Lab serves as the bridge between a community of over 7,000 volunteer contributors—who are end users of the tools we support in the OTF Transifex Hub (a broad network of human rights and civil society organizations)—and developers of digital security tools and resources.

In the internet freedom space, we’re in a unique position in that we’re able to connect directly with end users to localize and adapt tools for their communities. Localization isn’t just translation of tools for communities, but also involves design and usability.

To make tools usable and easy to adopt in communities we work closely with, our contributors use our needs-finding framework to discover unmet needs and feature requests, and then redesign tools with developers and end users into adaptive, resilient, and usable resources with higher adoption rates.

Localization Lab can provide services primarily in English, Spanish, Arabic, Filipino, Shona, Serbo-Croatian, and Portuguese, although they note they have the capacity to provide UXD services in most languages.

We are product designers, researchers and advocates shaping technology for a freer, safer world. We take a risk-informed approach, balancing the needs a change-maker has with the risk they are willing to take. We specialize in cross-cultural user research and in making complex privacy-centric tech both accessible and delightful. We have experience with circumvention tech, physical safety and harm reduction and blended online/offline experiences.

Okthanks can provide services in English and Portuguese.

Plaintext Design is a collective based in Europe with a focus on usability and communications. We bring years of experience working with global Internet Freedom projects, ranging from censorship circumvention and shutdown resilience to protocol design. Highly collaborative and always values-driven, we offer both short-term interventions and long-term support.

Plaintext Design can provide services in English, German, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, and French.

Superbloom (previously known as Simply Secure)’s mission is to leverage design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. We build interventions in tech strategy, design, and development processes, challenging harmful paradigms and the concentration of power, and creating a more just world. We are a global team bringing intersectional thinking, diverse skills, and above all passion to problem-solving and design.

Superbloom Design can provide services in English.

With advanced skills as a manager and user experience designer, Robert Stribley is the founder of Technique. He works with organizations across diverse sectors to design thoughtful UX solutions. Previously, he worked with Publicis Sapient and with Razorfish most recently as an Experience Director.

He offers skills as a UX researcher and designer, but also has expertise in UX feedback and heuristic analysis, usability testing, leading design workshops, and also with UX writing. He also advocates for privacy by design.

Technique can provide services in English.

The Engine Room is an international organization with a mission to strengthen the fight for social justice by supporting civil society to use technology and data strategically, effectively and responsibly. 

Our offerings encompass exploratory research to uncover the tech needs of communities in repressive environments, audience/early adopter mapping to identify potential users, secure user research to ensure the safety of digital resources, and user testing and feedback sessions to refine tool development and design sustainable feedback mechanisms.

The Engine Room can provide services in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Ura Design provides user experience, accessibility and visual design services to internet freedom and open source communities since 2016. Our team is based in Albania, Germany, France and Spain. Over the past 7 years we have supported over 100 open source and privacy-preserving technology tools, including Mozilla Firefox, Tor Project, Ubuntu Linux, Thunderbird, SecureDrop, Briar as well as various internet censorship and security research projects at the University of Michigan, Georgia Tech and University of Darmstadt.

Ura Design can provide services in English, Albanian, and German.