Inclusion Design | Microsoft Inclusive Design
Inclusive Design is a methodology, born out of digital environments, that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity. Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives.
Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. As designers, we need to seek out exclusions, and use them as opportunities to create new ideas and inclusive designs.
Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. As designers, we need to seek out exclusions, and use them as opportunities to create new ideas and inclusive designs.
"Designing for inclusion starts with recognizing exclusion."
-Kat Holmes Google UX Design Director & Author of Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design Let's take a deep dive into and explore:
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The Case for Inclusive Design
Let’s face it, as designers, we often generate and evaluate ideas based on what we know. We strive to make experiences that solve needs, work well with the human body, and improve lives. But here’s the problem: If we use our own abilities as a baseline, we make things that are easy for some people to use, but difficult for everyone else.
Inclusive design is a design methodology that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity.
- Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives.
- Designing inclusively doesn’t mean you’re making one thing for all people. You’re designing a diversity of ways for everyone to participate in an experience with a sense of belonging.
- Many people are unable to participate in aspects of society, both physical and digital. Understanding why and how people are excluded gives us actionable steps to take towards inclusive design.
There is a growing interest in making inclusion a positive goal for companies, teams, and products. To begin developing and growing inclusive practices in company culture and in the design process for mass-scaled technology is challenging. In this power talk, Kat Holmes of Google explains why inclusive design choices are much more than a good idea, they are becoming an economic imperative.
Design Meets Disability
Life-changing designs from students who want to save the world | CNN
The Ig Nobel Prize -- an alternative, unofficial Nobel for improbable scientific research -- hands out awards for "achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think."
Sometimes the esoteric world of design can feel the same way. The usefulness of design can be immediately apparent: a pen that can detect cancer mid-surgery, for example. But a musical instrument engineered for zero gravity? Perhaps less so. Nonetheless, both are driven by the desire to improve lives. |