Community Meeting (Sep 23): Creating tools that foster design beyond empathy

[Justin Obara]

At this week?s Community Meeting <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> ( Sep 23, 2025 ) Niklas Frost will be talking about Creating tools that foster design beyond empathy. Please see the description for further details.

Description:

Discussing explorations in creating design tools that attempt to facilitate design processes that are more inclusive towards underserved groups, specifically blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. One of the projects is BlindBox which is a design kit aimed at co-creation of mobile interfaces with blind and visually impaired individuals. For BlindBox, we "converted" common UI wireframe elements into tactile elements that could act as translational objects between BVI  and seeing individuals.
 
Another project is a browser plugin that shows one element of a website at the time. It is meant to mimic the experience of BVI individuals using websites in a visual format designers are used to rather, than as an auditory format.
Links:
BlindBox: A Design Kit for Co-Creating Mobile User Interfaces with Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3743049.3748554>

Time:
2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Location:
Remotely: Zoom <https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/84955597918?pwd=phsalHsuBb1goiSM40IhEvEuq5dl05.1>
 
Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. 

Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11537403/Inclusion+in+the+Fluid+Community>. (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.)
 
Thanks
Justin
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