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Category Archives: inclusive design
Thoughts on Inclusive Design
I was thinking about that phone I commented on recently and, in that context Inclusive Design and what it means.
The reason I struggle with the phone and its intended audience is that it is limiting. When someone arrives in a foreign country where they don’t speak the language we may choose to start them off [...]
Technophobic seniors: include them or boot them out?
Was just sent this link to an article about a phone designed for baby boomers.
I read the article and the intention seems very noble – designing a phone for technophobes (and possibly the infirm?) – the whole experience of using the phone seems to have been considered with full support from an online interface as [...]
Worse than self-referential design is design for your mum
I have often sat in design workshops and user research debriefs with groups of people who can’t help but bring their mother in the equation. Pot kettle and black I hear you say (I quote mine repeatedly) and go as far as having a category for her on this [...]
A word on accessibility
Another day another article on websites not being accessible.
Why is it so hard for people to create websites that are accessible? What are the barriers? An accessible website doesn’t have to curb the creative juices in any way – it just requires a little bit of thought. Decent code, decent information structure and some well [...]
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