It is fair to say that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), introduced in 1990, helped to set the bar and expectations for rights based accessibility to public services and buildings. It had impacts both within the United States but also internationally and went on to influence if not establish threshold accessibility requirements for digital services - websites, software and other technologies.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoBTD40s6T0/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D
Julia Métraux's article reflects on how the changes were depicted by the media. on how they might have been better handled and the desirability of more having empathetic discourse surrounding the basic need for more accommodating changes in the world.
“Media Portrayals of the Americans with Disabilities Act” by Julia Métraux.
Monday 30 January 2023
Wednesday 25 January 2023
4 Common Ways Companies Alienate People with Disabilities (Noone, 2021)
Cat Noone discusses: "the gaps companies have in understanding accessibility, four ways they’re excluding over 2B (and growing) people globally—albeit unknowingly, and how to address these fixes org-wide."
Basically, what Noone is saying is that universal access is not a nice-to-have requirement for product design - access is the universal requirement!
Thursday 12 January 2023
Design Thinking with Justin Ferrell (The Irish Times)
From 2014 Design Thinking workshop with Justin Ferrell of Stanford d. School hosted in The Irish Times (chaired by Bahareh Heravi and Johnny Ryan)
Link below to learning resource materials for both the Wallet Project and the Gift Giving Project created by the Stanford d.school.
https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/the-gift-giving-project (CC BY NC SA 4.0)
Design & Thinking documentary by Mu-Ming Tsai
Design & Thinking (2012). A documentary on design thinking and its impact on society and business.
Interviews with Sal Alito, Sara Beckman (archive footage), George Beylerian, Andrew Brandeis, Tim Brown, Matthew Cheney, Brooke Estin, Dan Formosa, Molly Fuller, Stephen Gibbs, Sarah Stein Greenberg, Richard Grefé, David Kelley, Roger Martin, Jefferson McCarley, Bill Moggridge, Tim Nichols, Alexander Osterwalder
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