The Importance of Defining Edge Cases

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Sally Kohn: I feel like so often, and I am totally guilty, I've just kind of forgetting about a lot of these folks that are just, they're not us. And why do we tend to forget about these folks so often when we're designing experiences? She says she would actually say these people are exactly like us. They just use different tools or they have, you know, maybe they don't go as fast as us but there's a whole lot about people with disabilities that is exactly the same.

Derek Featherstone teaches us how designing for people with disabilities is really just better design for everybody. He shows us how people with disabilities aren’t different from us, they just use different tools to accomplish the same things. He encourages us to apply empathy to grow our skills in learning how to design for accessibility. He also reveals how taking small steps to incorporate something new into our design process could change everything.

Origin Story (5:53)
What Were Your “Aha” Moments? (12:02)
Why Do We Tend to Forget About Disabled Users? (17:15)
Tools Disabled Folks Use to Navigate (20:47)
Accessibility, Greater Than Aesthetics (31:37)
Has Designing for Accessibility Ever Made Things Worse for Majority of “Able” Users? (36:14)
Story of Biggest Triumph in Designing for Inclusivity + Accessibility (42:36)
What’s a Roadmap for Learning this Stuff? (44:56)
Contact Info (47:35)

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