How Design for One Turns Into Design for All
- 6 years ago
How Design for One Turns Into Design for All
Our focus with Hands of X was on people in the middle who don’t want to hide their disability,
but also don’t want to become poster children for some futuristic, superhuman narrative, which carries with it a fairly exhausting notion of ‘triumph over adversity.’”
His phrase for Hands of X: “No triumph, no tragedy
“The utility of the most functional object in the world will go to waste if potential users don’t connect with it
and can’t see themselves using it,” said Donald Strum, a principal for product and graphic design at Michael Graves Architecture and Design.
They might end up looking like the Bedazzled and Bejeweled Earring Aid, by Elana Langer, in “Access+Ability”:
It turns out that one out of five adults in the United States has some disability, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — one out of 20 children.
There’s a Target puffer jacket in the show, designed by Mari Anderson Bogdan, with Velcro seams
and zip-on sleeves to serve young people who have trouble dressing.
You don’t have to have Parkinson’s or arthritis or a prosthetic hand to prefer magnets to buttons
and snaps, or to like the idea, and look, of Velcro seams and zippered sleeves.
Our focus with Hands of X was on people in the middle who don’t want to hide their disability,
but also don’t want to become poster children for some futuristic, superhuman narrative, which carries with it a fairly exhausting notion of ‘triumph over adversity.’”
His phrase for Hands of X: “No triumph, no tragedy
“The utility of the most functional object in the world will go to waste if potential users don’t connect with it
and can’t see themselves using it,” said Donald Strum, a principal for product and graphic design at Michael Graves Architecture and Design.
They might end up looking like the Bedazzled and Bejeweled Earring Aid, by Elana Langer, in “Access+Ability”:
It turns out that one out of five adults in the United States has some disability, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — one out of 20 children.
There’s a Target puffer jacket in the show, designed by Mari Anderson Bogdan, with Velcro seams
and zip-on sleeves to serve young people who have trouble dressing.
You don’t have to have Parkinson’s or arthritis or a prosthetic hand to prefer magnets to buttons
and snaps, or to like the idea, and look, of Velcro seams and zippered sleeves.