Last week my friend and I took a salsa class together, it was a super fun experience. After watching those videos, especially the one by Ellen Lupton when she was talking about eyes-free exhibition design, I can’t stop thinking about whether there could be a dance class provided for people with vision impairment, hearing issues, or who are physically disabled. They have the same right to...
Inclusive design can make our design more universal, eliminate the physical and psychological barriers of products for people with disabilities. When I was watching the video Disability and Innovation: Universal Benefits of Accessibility, the speaker Haben Girma mentioned that inclusive design not only benefits people with disbilities, but actually everyone of us. If we make designs available and...
I think it’s an exciting and necessary idea. I like walking, and I’ve fantasized about my life if I were blind. It would be so scary that I wouldn’t even be able to walk out the door. According to my observation, shops, streets, and houses in the United States are all wheelchair friendly for the disabled, but there are no corresponding facilities for the blind. In my opinion...
I want to talk about one of my project which is related to accessibility. I’ve redesigned Spotify for hearing accessibility person. First of all, I want to mention it, I struggled a lot from research to design. Because it was hard to interview person who has hard of hearing. I post at community and welfare center. But the staff at there doesn’t want me to post there. So I had to...
This is a rather unique experience of mine — I was participating in a closed beta of a video game called Rainbow Six Extraction a few months ago, a title created by the game company Ubisoft. There are some interesting points that stood out to me throughout my first gameplay. The first one being when I just started the game to enter the setup menu, I have immediately noticed that everything...
The last time I used interactive tools was when I used arrows and directions to find a classroom in the school, although the school’s road sign design was imperfect and inconvenient in my opinion. I think if it is designed for disabled people, there should be different wayfinding, for example, some disabled wheelchair self-service areas can be set up, and disabled people can store or borrow...
Usually, when there are many people inside an elevator, you need the people standing near the control panel to choose the floor for you, which is often very inconvenient. Why shouldn’t there be floor selection controls on each side of the cabin walls? There’s at least one floor-selecting panel installed lower on each side for wheelchair users, kids, etc., and at least one panel...
The recent interaction I have is using google drive, and that’s very interesting because I never think about using google drive with a disability. There are a lot of different kinds of disabilities, and I guess the only way to solve the problem for all human beings will be a machine that can read the human’s mind directly, so scratch that, I’ll focus on the people that were...