An Online Toolkit for Use in Design for All Education

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An Online Toolkit for Use inDesign for All
Education

• Joy Goodman-Deane
• Engineering Design Centre
• University of Cambridge

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Context

• idesign 3
• The design of mainstream products
• and/or services that are accessible to,
• and usable by, as many people as
• reasonably possible ... without the need for
  special adaptation or specialised design.
• Particular focus on motivating and equipping
  designers to put it into practice

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Inclusive Design Toolkit
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Use in Practice
Now I realise how much bad design is out
there Ill never design without thinking of the
user first
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Toolkit
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Motivation
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Process
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Process
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Resources Tools
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Personas
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Personas
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Personas
The website had personas in all extremes, which
was very helpful when thinking about designing
for the largest feasible market
- Design student
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Simulator

• Simulates some of the effects of vision and
  hearing impairments
• Give design students a more immediate insight
  into the impact of impairments on product use

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Simulator
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Simulator

• Provides a personal insight
• Describes disability data in a more immediate way
• A practical and simple evaluation tool

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Simulators
visual
dexterity
reach stretch
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Exclusion calculator
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Exclusion calculator

• The students used the on-line exclusion
  calculator (which they loved) to indicate user
  exclusion

- Course director, 1st year Engineering Design
project
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• www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com