Week 11 Reading

In the article, one of the most interesting points made was the how solving these design problems for those with disabilities can benefit everyone by creating better products overall, not just tailored to those with a disability. This really goes against what ideas we would intuitively have about design, creativity and innovation; namely that more is more. But this article argues that working with constraints, in this case, the unique needs of a person with a disablilty, actually leads to more creative outcomes that can branch out into better designs for general use. Namely, the article says working with disabilities in mind pushes designs to be more simple to increase ease of use, to be more discreet and smaller, and generally more usable. This pushes products, in general to also be better and more easily used by those without disabilities, which is the same point of design. Working for disabilities actually pushes design in the same direction it should be going in anyway in the majority of cases.

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