JMU Access Partnership
Inclusive Product Design
The ideal course for anyone involved in designing products for a mainstream audience.
Overview and objectives
Inclusive design is about understanding the diversity within your target users, which enables you to make better design decisions.
This workshop introduces what inclusive design is, the business case for why it is worthwhile, and demonstrates practical tools for its implementation. You will discover many real life examples and case studies illustrating that inclusive designs are better designs.
- Suitable for: This course is aimed at anyone whose decisions impact on the user experience. This includes product designers or managers, or indeed those who commission, specify, manage, purchase or evaluate others' designs.
- Pre-requisites: No former knowledge required.
Content
Aspects include:
- Presentations on the inclusive design process and supporting tools
- Team exercises to explore diversity
- Group discussions to develop learning
- Action planning to help you take your learning back to the workplace
Benefits
Delegates will:
- Improve awareness of user diversity
- Learn customer focused evaluation techniques
- Obtain materials to apply the exercises within your organisation
Course detail
Open (public) course dates
- Duration: Half day (9.30am to 1.00pm)
- Fee: £200 per person, plus vat
- Venues and Dates for public courses:
London - 1 October 2009
Peterborough - 19 October 2009
London - 25 November 2009 - We will be running courses in Leeds and Birmingham too.
To be automatically notified about new dates and venues, please email busdev@rnib.org.uk or phone 01733 37 53 45.
In-house or bespoke courses
- Please let us know what you need and we'll work with you to deliver this course in-house. We're also happy to update the course if you need something a bit different for your team.
How to book
To book a place on one of our open (public) course dates, please fill out our open training booking form.
Or you can phone our Business Development Team on 01733 37 53 45 or email us at busdev@rnib.org.uk
Other RNIB training courses
Please visit our business services training page for details of other courses available or contact us to ask for a bespoke course.
Contact us
Business Development Team
RNIB Innovation and Disability Access Services
PO Box 173
Peterborough
PE2 6WS
Tel: 01733 37 53 45
Fax: 01733 37 53 79
Email: busdev@rnib.org.uk