Design Meets Disability
Book Author: Graham Pullin

In "Design Meets Disability", Graham Pullin shows us how design and
disability can inspire each other. In the Eameses' work there was a healthy
tension between cut-to-the-chase problem solving and more playful
explorations. Pullin offers examples of how design can meet disability today.
Why, he asks, shouldn't hearing aids be as fashionable as eyewear? What new
forms of braille signage might proliferate if designers kept both sighted and
visually impaired people in mind? Can simple designs avoid the need for
complicated accessibility features? Can such emerging design methods as
"experience prototyping" and "critical design" complement clinical trials? 

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Graham Pullin
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=36315

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