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Mismatch : how inclusion shapes design / Kat Holmes.

By: Holmes, Kat [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: SimplicityPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xv, 156 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262038881 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Design -- Anthropological aspects | Social integration | Marginality, Social | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 745.4 Summary: Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as colour choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In 'Mismatch', Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as colour choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In 'Mismatch', Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.

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