Inclusive Design Practice
Usability Testing at 90MPH
Heuristic Evaluation - Accessibility
Corey Timpson
Morgan Holzer
Scott Gillam
Accessibility Crit
Room
Inclusive Design
Practice
Corey Timpson
Director, Design + New Media & Collections
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Overview
Opportunity
Practical Examples of What We’re Up To
> CMHR Context
> Experience Design
> Design and Build
> Exhibits
> Beyond the Exhibits
> Next Steps
Opportunity
Over 3000 Museums in Canada
CMHR
> Cost-Effectiveness
> Enterprise Approach
> Ability to Evolve
Context
Inclusive Design AND Accessibility
Built well for everyone
Intention
> Inclusive Design Advisory Council (IDAC)
> IDAC Working Group
> Partners and Experts
RAA
Design For All (Brian Everton)
OCAD Inclusive Design Research Centre
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Ryerson University - School of Disability Studies
National Test Group
Human Rights
Intangible, Conceptual Subject Matter
> Storytelling
>Video,Audio, Image,Text (and objects)
Idea Museum
> Dialogue Museum
> Interactivity
Experience
Multi-sensory & Multi-Modal
> Active, Passive, Interactive, Immersive
Redundancy
> deliver the same content and message in many ways
Experience (not just information access)
Design & Build
Modularity
Separation of Content from Presentation
Personalization
Scalability
Exhibits
Built Exhibits
> how do we make the hard exhibits usable?
Exhibits
Universal Interface
> how do we make the touchscreen usable?
Exhibits
A/V & Media
> how do we produce accessible stories?
What Else?
Beyond the Exhibits
> Content Development (incl. text writing)
> Digital Media (mobile,Web)
> Wayfinding
> Staff
> Tools
Next Steps
Fabrication
Software Development & Production
Making Mistakes
Building, Evolving, and Redesigning - Inclusively
ThankYou
Corey Timpson
Director, Design + New Media & Collections
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
corey.timpson@museumforhumanrights.ca
@coreytimpson
Accessibility Crit
ARTube
http://www.arttube.nl/
National Museum of Women in the Art
http://nmwa.org/

MW2013 - Establishing Sound Practice: Ensuring Inclusivity with Media Based Exhibitions + Accessibility Crit Room