Inclusive Design.

There are some topics, that we usually don’t realize at the moment we think about a particular design, a game or a movie. As students, we just want to make an appealing, nice and conceptual project but there is much more than that and we should start thinking about it.

A project has to be useful, appealing and understandable to every person in the world, not just to that few without any incapacity.

Designers have to think about accessibility. I find it very hard yet to start thinking about a project where everybody can have access to it. There are so many concepts that need to be covered. The challenge is to make a project that is adapted to colour-blind people using different tools to gain it, as well as to people with dyslexia, mobility disabilities and hearing problems. With time I am sure I'll find the way to learn how to.

Also, in my opinion we live in a Racist world. Discrimination because of gender, culture, religion, sexuality, and others, are everywhere in films, games and design (Dena, 2015). Why don’t we start thinking outside the box and try to include everyone without exclusions? Being a Latina female, sometimes I honestly feel discriminated, either because of my accent, my look or just because I don’t fit in some cultural talks, and I can tell you, there’s no worst sensation than feeling excluded.

We are in 2015, job differences because of gender shouldn’t exist any more! Why are there still differences in salaries between man and woman (Ombudsman, 2014), and why are higher lever jobs still harder to get from women than to man?

I believe that, it could sound hippie and pacifist, but we should all seriously have more consideration and stop discriminating and excluding people because of what the can or can’t do, or because of there appearance or life style. That could maybe be the only way we can live in a better world.

Bibliography

Dena, C. (2015, April 20). Week 5: Inclusive Design. Retrieved 13 July 2015, from https://medium.com/self-directed-practitioners/week-12-inclusive-design-9df8f239653b

Ombudsman, F. W. (2014, April 7). Protection from discrimination at work. Retrieved 13 July 2015, from http://www.fairwork.gov.au/employee-entitlements/protections-at-work/protection-from-discrimination-at-work