Inclusive Design, Day 15/15: Links, Resources, Voices, and Stories

This is day 15 of 15 in a short series on inclusive design. If you missed any of the earlier posts, see day 1 here or view the full list below.

Resources, notes, and links to recap the 15-day series on inclusive design, where I shared what I’m learning about inclusive design with you.

I hope you’ve enjoyed following along and have learned something new. I welcome your comments and back-links to share your stories and resources, so I can learn what inclusive design means to you.

Voices

• Kat Holmes
• John Maeda
• Cate Huston
• Sara Wachter-Boettcher
• Ashleigh Axios
• Leo Postovoit
• Davide Casali
• Sheena Iyengar

Product Stories & Companies

• Roku — Story: Roku & the 10-Foot Rule
• OXO — Story: OXO Figured It Out
• Barclays — Story: Accessible Banking and Accessibility Developments
• Automattic & WordPress.com — Story: “Are You Sure?” Improved Publishing Confidence on WordPress.com, To See Yourself in Imagery, and Is Calypso Fast Yet?
• WooCommerce — Story: Inclusive Marketing
• Microsoft — Resource: Inclusive Design Toolkit
• Atlassian — Story: Illustrating Balanced and Inclusive Teams
• Airbnb — Video: How Airbnb Designs for Trust
• Twitter — Product: Twitter Lite
• Facebook — Product: Facebook Lite

Automattic & WordPress Projects

1. Design.blog — 50 thought leaders contributing essays on design, inclusion, +/- tech in Community, Creativity, Culture, Health, Leadership, and Product.
2. Design and Exclusion — A free conference produced by Automattic, Mash-Up Americans, and the MIT Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab.
3. Inclusive Illustrations — The illustration vocabulary created by Alice Lee and adopted by WordPress.com to express the broad range of customers that we serve.
4. Inclusive Design Checklist — An online and printed resource launched at the 2017 AIGA National Design Conference.
5. We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason — Matt Mullenweg on the essential freedoms of WordPress

Books

• Tragic Design by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  
• Design for Real Life by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer
• Kat Holmes’s Inclusive Design book list (Pinterest)

Blog Series: 15 Days of Inclusive Design

1. Day 1: Introduction, Discovery, and Voices
2. Day 2: Building Empathy
3. Day 3: Mismatched Conditions
4. Day 4: When Defaults Don’t Fit
5. Day 5: To See Yourself in Imagery
6. Day 6: Recognizing Exclusion
7. Day 7: Roku and the 10-Foot Rule
8. Day 8: Expand Your Market By Solving One Case First
9. Day 9: Review of Principles
10. Day 10: Making Your App Accessible Benefits Everyone
11. Day 11: OXO Figured It Out
12. Day 12: Improved Publishing Confidence on WordPress.com
13. Day 13: Mind the Mobile, Design for Low Bandwidth
14. Day 14: Diverse Teams Make Better Decisions
15. (You are here.)

This content will live on in the form of a continually updated page: sensible.blog/inclusive.

About this Inclusive Design series — Today (February 16, 2018) I’m giving a talk on inclusive design at WordCamp Phoenix 2018. Leading up to the conference I’ve been publishing notes on voices, stories, products, and other resources: everything I’m learning about this emerging practice. Read more about the series.