Making Cities More Accessible with Human-Centered Design
From: Northwestern Engineering Magazine - Fall 2017

Northwestern's 2017 Design for America Leadership Studio Challenges 106
students to create solutions inspired by the difficulties community members
face. 

DFA projects to improve urban accessibility included:

  Vertishelf - An organization method that brings items on stores’ top
  shelves within reach

  Enhance - A new art immersion experience that included multi-sensory
  experiences, featuring more audio and tactile pieces designed for people
  who are seeing or hearing impaired

  Rumple - A bumpy barrier between the crosswalk and street for people with
  visual impairments

  Leaning Light - A light that people in wheelchairs can illuminate to let an
  approaching bus driver know they will need the boarding ramp

  XS - A crowd-sourced, online platform that holds accessibility information
  about public places to help people with disabilities know what to expect

  Knightwatch - A wearable device that alerts people with hearing impairments
  to potential threats, such as oncoming traffic, in their immediate
  surroundings

Read the entire article and view a video (2:53) at:
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall-2017/making-cities-more-accessible-with-human-centered-design.html
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall-2017/pdf/making-cities-more-accessible-with-human-centered-design.pdf

Using Design to Make Cities More Accessible (with video 2:53) at:
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2017/08/using-design-to-make-cities-more-accessible.html