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What is equitable design?

Payette's Spatial Equity Research Group looks at design through the lens of social equity, diversity and inclusion. The design process revolves around the users, with equitable design strategies expanding upon that thinking by broadening the spectrum of users considered when designing a space.

Today's post is on Accessible Design. As a design process, accessibility allows for the explicit consideration of people with disabilities in product design, software design, web interface development and architecture. The design characteristics include facilitating independence for people with a variety of disabilities and emphasizing safety.

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📷 (1) "The Ramp that Led to Nowhere", courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives
(2) Wounded Warrior Home Project, courtesy of IDEO
(3) ThisAbles, courtesy of IKEA
(4) Hemingway Editor

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