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// Inclusive Designing //
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This video above, gives a good explanation upon why inclusive desinging is an important part of conception for designers/architects and for those who benefit from it.
= What is 'inclusive designing'? =  Inclusive designing is the ability to design for a majority, developing a product that suits as many people as possible. Like a ‘mainstream’ product accessible to a majority. It aims to include as many 'groups' of people as it can possibly include such as people with handicaps, the elderly, the disabled, youngsters and others. An example of a product using inclusive designing could be a set of traffic lights with buzzers. This was initially intended to help blind people.



A set of '//conceptually//' designed traffic lights

To be able to create such successful products, inclusive designing is based around structured models. These models run throughout all stages of the product development, like an ‘ideal path’.

A common factor of inclusive designing is that their models always follow a loop, so that each stage can be checked over. This process is similar to the one of flow charts. Each step has a ‘failure’ or ‘success’ path, which allows a simple idea to become reality.


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=** How important is inclusive designing? ** =  Products that have been thought through using inclusive designing, will have the tendency to become relatively more successful, this is due to the concept of ‘popularity’ and ‘mainstream use’ allowing inclusive designed projects this advantage. This is important because it means more money for the designing company and its employees.

Secondly, using inclusive design allows projects to be less faulty or degenerate. In this way, customer frustration has less impact on the designing company because product will have been tested and developed through inclusive designing. As a result, inclusive designing provides greater customer satisfacition and higher commerical success by minimizing and development costs.

=** How have I come to this conclusion? ** =  While researching about inclusive designing I have come to several conclusions. Firstly, I have found that inclusive designing is helpful for business companies who seek a broad variety of customers. In exchange, inclusive designing helps customer’s to get hold of the product that suits them best. Secondly, although inclusive designing is time & cost consuming, it pays off when it comes to 'including' everyone. It is thoughtful in the way that if an elderly or a youngster come to use the same product, they'll be equally capable of using it. Type in the content of your page here.