0039- Universal and Accessible Design with Dónal Fitzpatrick

Host: Daniel Guenther and Katie Fallon 

In today’s episode we talk with Dónal Fitzpatrick, a Senior ICT Design Advisor with Ireland’s National Disability Authority.

You are very welcome to the podcast Dónal. To start, can you tell us a little about yourself?

1.What are some good examples of bad design?

2.How do you raise people’s design awareness? [on using baddesigns.com… to encourage discussions even arguments about good and bad design…]

3.What is the difference between universal design and accessible design?

4.What are some good examples of good universal design?

5.How do you build universal design into the heart of a new product?

6.With its emphasis on empathy, you could argue that the Design Thinking approach already implies a universal design goal. Is that enough or do you think it needs to be emphasised?

7.Can you tell us about the NDA's annual grand challenge competition for colleges?

8.Do you have any final comments before we finish?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for talking with us today.

Notes:

Dónal has also appeared on the NCBI Podcast: https://youtu.be/q6tcOw5OqPQ

Acknowledgements

Music

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

Title: Eza One - Supernova

Artist: Argofox (record label)

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Cover Art 

Title: The Driver - Humanscale Blueprint - Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile

Artist: Graphic design by Allen Higgins 

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The graphic is under Fair Use and adapted from “Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile” from Humanscale 7/8/9 booklet by Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley and David Harman; Henry Dreyfuss Associates, M.I.T. Press (1981)

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