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Should inclusive design be a UX concern?

The data may surprise you.

Trina Moore Pervall
UX Collective
5 min readFeb 6, 2023
Sketch of people of diverse gender, age, ethnicity, and abilities
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Is inclusive design really necessary for creating great user experiences?

If you look at how often inclusive design is discussed in UX design articles, courses, books, etc., you’re likely to think inclusive design is optional or gold-plating.

UX design articles rarely promote inclusive design as a foundational principle; instead its typically discussed as a ‘speciality’ field. Designing for disabilities is gaining some traction but designing for inclusiveness of other aspects of our identities — our race/ethnicity, gender, skin color, age, size, sexual orientation — is still widely overlooked.

People in leadership positions — C-suite executives, product owners, product managers — need data for motivation and justification to allocate resources to user research and inclusive design. So, I pulled together some data about users, their experiences, and their expectations about inclusive products to share with leadership in your company/organization…

Disability-inclusion

The World Health Organization reports that 15% of people worldwide (1.2 billion) live with some form of disability. Nonetheless, evaluations of home pages for the top 1 million websites have found very little improvement in web…

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Written by Trina Moore Pervall

UX Researcher & Designer advocating for social equity in technology through inclusive design. For more: uxforthewin.com/links

Responses (3)

What are your thoughts?

Thanks for sharing your experience with this topic. Out of curiosity, what prompts did you use to get that first draft of the design documentation? I’m interested mainly in how you refined your prompt for a better result.

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The idea of somebody always online and looking for information or relevant research to answer your questions is revolutionary. This is one of the greatest strengths that ChatGPT provides. - I love this .Thanks for sharing

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🤯👀 omg! Technology is just mind-blowing! It's incredible what chat GPT can do these days! 🤖👏

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