Design Meets Disability

 

I think the reading was interesting it communicated the importance of design to disabilities and how it opens a new possibility to re-invent these pieces as fashion and not only for medical purposes. I enjoyed the part about glasses because it reminded me of the times when I would go shopping with my mom and I always try many on before picking one that suits me. I can not imagine a time when glasses were not stylized. Similarly, I think there is a sense of struggle when comes to designing things for disability, I will argue that maybe because the person designing these pieces is not disabled himself/herself which would be a problem because the designer would not know what the people who he/she is designing for wants. I think part of the design process is to know the consumers well. Their opinion, their style, and what they want. However, the reading lacked that part. Especially when it comes to design Ear- Wear and different body limbs.

It is good to design products that are more inclusive and toward the disabled like clickable audio buttons, or products that have braille on them. Further, how do we design products that can compensate people who lack some limps? Do we incorporate different limps to our design too or do we make our products useable in different ways but with the same effect? I do not think that the radio example is that inclusive it might be to a degree but I think it could be more inclusive if the designers would allow users to control it with voice, or even control it with brail and then would also have a small screen that writes whatever is being displayed in the radio

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