Designing for the extremes

How to turn everyone into an a11y persona.

Beatriz González Mellídez
UX Collective
Published in
8 min readMay 20, 2020

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curve bell L-R: People w Disability, people getting older, average users, people under serious stress, mobile & power users.
Extremes users generalist view: a curve bell diagram with icons depicting different people/users.

InIn this article I’m going to draw on the Design thinking concept of designing for extreme users and I will argue that designing for extreme users can be considered a case of designing for accessibility. I’m going to talk about pilots, (who doesn’t like pilots, right?) to shortly mention how to incorporate accessibility into personas and the…

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