TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pullin, Graham 
TI  - Design Meets Disability
SN  - 9780262516747
U1  - DSGN 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Art
KW  - Design
KW  - Furniture design
KW  - Human factors
KW  - Industrial design
KW  - Product design
N1  - 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? Pullin also presents a series of interviews with leading designers about specific disability design projects, including stepstools for people with restricted growth, prosthetic legs (and whether they can be both honest and beautifully designed), and text-to-speech technology with tone of voice. When design meets disability, the diversity of complementary, even contradictory, approaches can enrich each field
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