Inclusive Design with Users | A11y Tokyo Meetup

• Event Page in Japanese on Connpass
• How to get to the venue
• Venue: You won't be able to enter the venue after 19:40. Although this meetup page says it is an in-person event, this is a hybrid event that is streamed on Zoom.
• Language: This session will be conducted in Japanese.
  Japanese captions and Auto-translation are available

## The goal is to adopt inclusive design for 50% of new KOKUYO products!

Industrial and commercial design always has a user. We designers have been creating designs that incorporate new functions and mechanisms for mass users.

However, it has become increasingly difficult to see the smiles on users' faces just because of convenient functions, low cost, or beautiful design.

Inclusive design is to provide products and services to a diverse range of people by finding the design codes that are truly needed by working together with extreme users (disabled, elderly, non-Japanese, etc.), who have been hidden from the mass users who have been emphasized until now, from the planning stage.

In this session, we will look at the design process of With User rather than "For Used", introducing the Inclusive Design process that has actually been conducted at KOKUYO Corporation and the Inclusive Design Network.

Accessible, Hybrid, Multilingual Meetup
A11yTokyo Meetup is a unique meetup that features various genres of 'accessibility', conducted in a hybrid format of on-site and online broadcasting, primarily in Japanese and English.

Many foreigners participate in the on-site venue in Tokyo, building networks through socialization sessions. We use the voice recognition technology app 'UD Talk' to provide real-time captions, and its automatic translation feature allows for multi-language subtitle translation.

In past Tokyo venues, many Japanese and foreigners have participated. The post-session networking opportunity is a chance to build a global network! Additionally, people from various countries participate online from both within Japan and abroad.

Time Schedule
19:15 Venue Open
19:30 - 19:45 Introduction
19:45 - 20:30 Workshop, Q&A
20:30 - 21:00 Networking (Recommended to join on-site. This month we will experiment a separate online networking session for English and Japanese speakers. The zoom link will be shared afterward. )

Speaker Profile

Takeshi Fujiki (KOKUYO)
Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1988. Since then, he has been involved in office furniture, office space, and stationery design at KOKUYO Corporation, where he continues to work as an expert designer.

He has served as a board member of the International Association for Universal Design since 2008 and established his own NPO, Inclusive Design Network, in 2018 with the aim of expanding his activities.

Currently, he is in charge of a project to make 50% of KOKUYO's new products inclusive design. He is also active as a lecturer at Musashino Art University, Kobe Design University, and Tezukayama University to foster inclusive design for young people, and conducts various workshops for co-creation and empathy.

Access to Venue

• Location: Open Collaboration Hub LODGE (LINE Yahoo Co., Ltd., Kioicho Office)
• Address: 17th Floor, Garden Terrace Kioicho, 1-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (directly connected to Nagatacho Station)
• The detail is documented in How to Get to the Venue
• An entry pass is required. Please fill in your name on the Google form, and it will be given to you at the 2nd-floor reception.
• *Online participation is planned via a Zoom webinar. URL and other details will be provided in advance.

Sponsors
Thanks to LINE Yahoo for providing their venue.