Inclusive Design Resources

Spend an hour (suggested order)

Inclusive Design, the movie , Microsoft Design (21 min)
Microsoft’s inspiring bet on a radical new type of design thinking, FastCo (8 pages)
Inclusive Design from pixels to the city, UK Design Council (2 min)
Excerpt, The End of Average, Todd Rose (4 pages)
The Myth of Average, Todd Rose, TEDx (19 min)
Inclusive Design - best for everyone, geekrama via Medium (2 pages)
Disability Sensitivity Video (4 min)

Download:
Inclusive Design Manual
Inclusive design toolkit

Spend part of a day

The selection of 5 minute videos created by the Inclusive Design Center (20 min)
Inclusive Skype
Empathy
Inclusive Cities
Digital Systems

Myths of Inclusive Design, Norwegian Design Council (20 slides)

How ordinary tech workers can improve the industry's diversity, FastCompany (4 pages)
Evolution of Design, podcast by Bill Buxton and Kat Holmes (19 min)
Excluding no gender Sarah Leren (30 slides on Slideshare)
Light up the World Through Sound, Amos Miller, TEDx Talk (19 min)
The Opportunity of Adversity, Aimee Mullins , TED Talk (22 min)
How I Use Sonar to Navigate the World, Daniel Kish, TED Talk (13 min)
Gallaudet Deaf Space, University Architecture, Curbed (9 pages)
Gallaudet University, Design for Deaf Space (4 min)
W.H.O. on Gender, (website)

Case Studies
Starbucks
Starbucks Creates a Diversity of Ways to Interact, Starbucks
This Starbucks barista used sign language to help a drive-thru customer, Business Insider

OneNote
OneNote Learning Tools (Add-On for OneNote)
Disruptive Education Technologies, Forbes Magazine (4 pages)

OXO Good Grips

OXO Good Grips, website
OXO Good Grips story, Smart Design website (1 page, 5 min video)
O6 Eyes Free Experience
O6 Free Your Eyes, website
Bay Area company uses technology designed for blind to combat distracted driving ABC 7 News
clip (2 min video) and product introduction (2 min video)
Wearable clips onto your steering wheel for eyes-free smartphone control Gizmag (3 pages)

Spend more time

The End of Average, book by Todd Rose, (256 pages)
W.H.O. Report on Disability (350 pages)
It's not Fair Having 12 Pairs of Legs, Aimee Mullins, TED Talk (10 min)
Making a Car for Blind Drivers, Dennis Hong, TED Talk (9 min)

Microsoft specific resources on Inclusion

The Business of Inclusion
Enable: CELA and Accessibility Resources

Centers of Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design Toolkit by University of Cambridge
Norwegian Design Council
Inclusive Design Research Center University of Toronto
Center for Universal Design in Education, University of Washington

Case Studies
Guide Dogs and Cities Unlocked
Guide dog owner and former Guide Dogs Trustee Amos Miller inspires at #TEDxGlasgow,
Guidedogs UK
New chief of S'pore guide dogs group has big plans, Straits Times, Singapore
Microsoft headset to help blind people navigate cities, BBC
Cities Unlocked (website UK)
Mobility and Independence, (4 min)

Google Navigation for All

How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge, FastCoDesign
Google Tango

Virtual Reality and Empathy

How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine, Chris Milk, TED Talk (10 min)
Director Chris Milk And Top Producers Launch New Virtual Reality Production Company,
FastCoCreate (2 pages) If you have an Android device, install the app Within – VR, (Android App)
and then access the content
Creating immersive, inclusive empathy experience about war w/VR, artists Milica Zec & Winslow
Porter. Screening featured at Seattle International Film Festival among other festivals.

Join a community
Inclusive Design is gaining momentum at Microsoft. We are so excited to share with you two new
ways for you to plug into this movement. Please consider joining us in one of the groups described
below.

1. Inclusive Design @ Microsoft News

This is a low risk way to keep plugged in with what is going with Inclusive Design. This broadcast only
DL is where you can get our monthly newsletter and other occasional updates on research, events
and progress on the cross-Microsoft Inclusive Design effort.

Click here to join the Inclusive Design News group.

2. Inclusive Design Activators Community

Want to grow your inclusive design skills? In partnership with The Garage we’re building an open
community to evolve the toolkit, get access to resources, and share best practices. We believe that
forming a community of activators will enable us to have greater impact.

What do you get out of being an Activator?

 Early access to resources
 Learning best practices
 Making connections and networking

We will provide a variety of ways that you can be a part of this group. They will range from low-level
of time investment to more time-intensive initiatives. We’d love to have you join us on this journey
to make Inclusive Design a differentiating edge of Microsoft products and services.

Please join our Inclusive Design Activator group now by going to the link below (or copy/paste the
URL into the browser if you see an error) and clicking on “join” in the right upper portion of the
screen.
https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/group/activators@service.microsoft.com/mail