UX Crunch: Inclusive Design and Accessibility

For both moral and legal reasons, inclusive design has always been a necessary part of a design to allow a product to reach its full potential. The UN estimates that more than 1 billion people around the world live with some form of disability and as populations age over the coming years, this number is set to rise.

With the current political and social landscape rapidly changing, it has never been more important to consider accessibility and inclusiveness.

Nate Giraitis - Strategy Director - Smart Design

As Strategy Director and co-founder of Smart Design’s London studio, Nate focuses design teams to connect with the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs of people in order to create impactful designs. With a background in industrial design and over a decade of experience in service design and digital products, he specializes in multi-disciplinary projects which require larger systems to be considered holistically.

Ruby Steel - Senior Design Strategist - Smart design

An empathic and passionate designer, Ruby is always looking for ways for design to benefit the widest audience possible. In addition to her contributions to service design, research, and strategy at Smart Design, she has also been featured in BBC2’s programme “Big Life Fix,” where designers use their skills to improve the lives of those struggling with disabilities.

Multisensory UX: Inclusive design beyond the screen

How can the value of inclusivity be resolved when products and systems have both digital and physical interfaces? What accessibility opportunities (and challenges) arise when we forgo screens for Voice UI and Sound UX? We will walk through several multi-disciplinary projects – from connected healthcare in Bangladesh to children’s playgrounds in London - and break down how to apply universal design thinking to a range of interaction types.

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