![]() Holmes served as the Principal Director of Inclusive Design at Microsoft from 2014-2017 and led a multi-disciplinary team in the development of the award-winning Inclusive: A Microsoft Design Toolkit. ![]() Kat Holmes is the founder of sign, a community and digital magazine dedicated to advancing inclusive design. ![]() Join Holmes and Hosein for a treatise on remedying mismatched designs and creating elegant solutions that make tech accessible for excluded users. Holmes cites advice from her book Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design to show how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies, acting as a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. She is joined in conversation by Hanson Hosein, Director of the Communication Leadership master’s program at the University of Washington. ![]() ![]() Inclusive design expert Kat Holmes founded sign to combat the problem of devices that reject their users, and she brings her expertise to Town Hall to discuss how assumptions or thoughtless choices can lead to exclusion in design. A computer mouse that doesn’t work for left-handed people, an interface whose color scheme is inaccessible for users with colorblindness, a touchscreen payment system that’s only usable by those who read English, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card- these design oversights are the building blocks of exclusion, and they’re built into many devices we take for granted. ![]()
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