0020 - From Design Thinking to Inclusive Design

Hosts: 

Allen Higgins

Guest: 

Tina Lowe

In this episode Tina Lowe (UCD Campus Accessibility Officer) and I talk about the links design thinking and universal design. 

We also talk about the idea of empathy and how to spark design awareness in others.

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Discussion touching on:

●What is design thinking?

●Why do you consider inclusive design to be an essential part of the design process?

●Who benefits from inclusive design?

●What is design empathy? 

●How can you spark design awareness in others?

Notes:

The season cover art is adapted from “Try to Accommodate Everyone!”, an image of anthropometric ranges for a wheelchair user and small persons (used under Fair Use) from page 44 of the Humanscale 4/5/6 design guides created by Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley and David Harman; Henry Dreyfuss Associates, M.I.T. Press (1981)

The Humanscale design books and selector guides were out of print and unavailable for many years. A reissue of the resource kit was funded on Kickstarter in 2018, organised by IA Collaborative (Chicago, IL) 

https://humanscalemanual.com

https://iacollaborative.com/about/

Acknowledgements

Music by Argofox (CC-BY license)

https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova

(EzaOne - Supernova: youtu.be/xZDYu5azS-c)

Title: “Eza One - Supernova”

Artist: “Argofox”

Source: “https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova”

License: “CC BY”

Cover Art 

Title: Graphic treatment of Humanscale Blueprint – Try to Accommodate Everyone!

Artist: Allen Higgins 

Source: Humanscale.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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