Inclusion

What is Inclusive Design

The inclusive design means build the design based on the barriers and be as inclusive as possible to fit all kinds of people. This design is a long term process to find what people need and how to make it beneficial. A good designer should have a good capacity for empathy and passion for the design. The design is like a product that everyone can use it and enjoy using it (Doyle, 2019). It is similar to design for all, but we need to create it in a reasonable way. The world diversifies in a different culture, different personalities, different ages/gender, and especially in different abilities. This design is more toward disability people who have limit human sensory (Persson, H., Åhman, H., Yngling, A.A. et al, 2015).

Colorblindness disability:

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Here is an example of a website called “usabilla” that helps people who are colorblindness to understand better. This website is easy to follow and have benefit for different kind of disabilities. They are not only using text or color to show something but also combine color and symbols, limit color, and significant color difference to represent data. The website giving us several tips to support us to understand how to make a good website that suitable for colorblindness people.

1. Use both colors and symbols(simple symbols that everyone can understand)
2. Keep it minimal
3. Use patterns and textures to show contrast
4. Be careful with contrasting colors and hues
5. Avoid bad color combos

Here is another powerful example that people are blind still can create art base on multi-sensory development learning. This project explains step by step that helps those people to learn visual art. Even they lose the visual, people can still use other materials. The person in this article using clay to make 3D art instead of wall painting. The inclusive design in this project is a museum that allows everyone to touch, feel, hear, or even taste the art; so they make the museum suitable for everyone including those people who have sensory disabilities. Same as colorblindness, if people can not see the colors, they can use another way to express art like texturized paintings.

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Loss Hearing:

Here is another example that a girl who lose hearing but still create beautiful art. However, there is another sensory support her so strong like touch and vision. She can use the rest of the body to feel the sound and she said “Sound doesn’t enter only through the ears. It can go through the full body and also your psyche” (Karen, 2015). The expression for art creative idea people do not need to hear anything because they have a strong taste in different sensory. Sometimes they can create a different art than hearing people because they can view the world differently.

Overall, we hope people who have disability on color blind and loss of hearing can access our activities and gain some confidence through our lessons.