July 2020

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Assistive Technologies

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  • Amplified telephone
  • Font resizing / larger
  • Hearing aid
  • Screen magnification or zoom
  • Cochlear implant
  • Screen reader (e.g, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ChromeVox)
  • Cane, walker, guide animal or other walking aid
  • Braille terminal
  • Wheelchair
  • Voice Control / speech recognition Software (e.g., Dragon, Siri, Google Home, Google Assistant, Cortana)
  • Prosthetics
  • Speech generating device
  • Wearable tech (not prosthetics)
  • Speech to text (i.e., Dragon Naturally Speaking, Google Doc Voice, Typing, Windows Speech Recognition)
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device
  • High contrast mode or browser color preferences
  • Sign language interpreter
  • Alternative keyboard
  • Speech-to-speech transliterator
  • Alternative mouse or stylus
  • Visual aids
  • Keyboard-only navigation (no mouse usage)
  • Writing on paper
  • Switch access or head pointer or eye tracking
  • Typing with phone or tablet or other device then showing it to others
  • Joystick
  • Caregiver (friend, relative, professional assistant / aid)
  • Teletypewriter (TTY) or Telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD)
  • Closed Captions

Taken from a Google survey dated September 2019.

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Entry 2390

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And yet design and designers. I’m a designer, and what I’ve seen is that we are perpetually distressed, perpetually feel threatened by the idea of democratization. As long as I’ve been a designer there’s been talk about the idea of accreditation, about the idea of licensing designers, about making people take training, take tests in order to practice design, regulating the practice of design. Designers take a look at services and website like 99 Designs, which is a website, a marketplace–if you have a design task that you need done, a business card or something, you post it there and designers bid on the job and the effect is it drives down the price of design. It drives down to the median value of design.

Khoi Vinh on The Skeptic’s Case For Design Thinking
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Entry 2388

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In their writing, they reflect on their own work, and they’re skeptical about what they’re doing often times. They’re also very skeptical and question the world around them. And that’s something that I think that we can do a lot more as designers, and I know it is not an easy thing to do, because a lot of our practice is to serve commercial goals and purposes. Under that kind of condition it’s not that easy to say, “Okay. Are we doing the right thing? Or are we doing good design right now?”

Natasha Jen on Design Thinking Is B.S.
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Notes on Cultivating Creative Collaboration – A Webcast by IDEO U

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Cultivating Creative Collaboration - A Webcast by IDEO U - 27 March 2020
A screenshot of the webcast featuring Suzanne Howard (left) and Sacha Connor (right). 27 March 2020

Guest speaker: Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider

On Working from Home

Burnout is more of a concern than lack of productivity.

Virtual Meetings

  • Make sure it is really necessary
  • Avoid tourists in meeting – include only people that need to be there
  • Pre-work – what can be done in advance to make the meeting take the shortest time possible
  • Video (versus audio-only) is better for facilitation
  • Inclusivity
    • Ice-breakers – giving everybody a voice in meetings
      • E.g., what luggage are you bringing in this meeting? What’s going on outside of your camera?
    • Encourage participation from everyone
  • Once the meeting ends, how do we communicate?
    • Have common agreement regarding which channel to communicate on regarding a particular concern
    • For example, if something needs to be documented, use email for paper-trail
  • Who are the key stakeholders internally, externally
    • Find out which is a good time to engage with them
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