Thread by @RohanIrvine

Next up is @z_rose with Disability as a driver of innovation in UX.

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Innovation is the umbrella term we use when we don't know if we need an invention or an improvement.

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Pellegrini created the first braille type writer so he could send private letters to his blind friend.

Alexander bells lifework was focussed on helping deaf people, and the telephone was just a side thing he invented.

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Ray Kurzweil was speaking with a blind passenger who in conversation said he'd really love to read a book.

What Ray did was create the first flatbed scanner & text to voice reader.

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The constraints associated with disabilities drive innovation and invention.

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We designers should be willing to fully embrace constraints.

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Disability first design which is growing within Microsoft has produced a toolkit to understand what constraints mean.

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Disability communities create markets, when transistors came out noone really knew what to do with them.

The deaf communities used them to drive down the size of hearing aids which mean they created ideas for other new markets.

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The World health organisation now recognises the social aspect of disability
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If we create the interfaces and experiences that exclude people from using our products and services WE ARE MAKING PEOPLE DISABLED

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The conversation about accessibility starts and stops in the same place, colour contrast.

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We have gotten ourselves into a place where we think that accessibility is based on a technical restraint.

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When they created WCAG we lost the ambiguity of how to make things accessible.

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The second that the specs for WCAG came out the iPhone was released and broke everyhting.

WCAG is always technology centred not human Centred.

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There era of technical compliance to WCAG is coming to an end.

The CommBank payment terminal is 100% WCAG compliant and they're still getting sued for not being accessible

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Skype has a transcription service that will capture voice from a video call.

Now you don't have to transcribe!

Came from the deaf community.

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Games with different accessibility experiences.
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The new Lara Croft game has a suite of accessibility controls to make the gaming experiences better for you.

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XBOX adaptive controller allows people to plug their own mods into the system so they can play their way.

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New inventions
Prosthetics mean a personalised prosthetic
Neural connections to be able to control a mechanic hand with you mind
A robot hand that sends touch feedback to the brain.

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Who are the early adopters of these next inventions?

Sex industry

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If the Segway had a sexual application you'd probably be riding it.

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You should be putting your investments into sextech for disabilities!

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You can use disability in your discovery research, you might end up with a different set of features.

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The gaming industry is far ahead because the deal with very complex interaction design, they identified a huge opportunity and have been accelerating with their advancements

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Be ahead of the curve on this one. Disability first design.

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Brilliant talk by Zoe!
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