The future is now! Sort of. Inclusive Design, where we design for a spectrum of abilities, is more important than ever. As we’re breaking new frontiers of what’s possible, we’re also breaking new frontiers of how difficult we can make things for our users. Not all of our users have perfect vision and motor control, a new and hi-tech device, and blazing fast internet.
This talk will offer concrete tips on how to start doing better, more inclusive, design right away. It will bust the myths that inclusive design is too difficult, time consuming, or expensive. It will help us gain greater empathy for our users who have a range of different physical and cognitive experiences of the products they use. There will also be pictures of animals, because cute.
About the speakers
Nicola du Toit is a UX designer and usability specialist by day and a musician by night. She has a Masters degree specialising in human-computer interaction but is also left-handed, which means that usability (or a lack thereof) has always been a significant part of her life. She firmly believes that human-centred design can make the world a better place.
Nicola rants about bad UX (and other things) on twitter as @sophdex and can be found in the interwebs at http://nicoladutoit.com.
