Inclusive Design with Users | A11y Tokyo Meetup

Mar 25 @ 19:30 - 21:00 JST

Event Page in Japanese on Connpass

How to get to the venue

Venue: You won't be able to enter the venue after 19:40. Although this meetup page says it is an in-person event, this is a hybrid event that is streamed on Zoom.

Language: This session will be conducted in Japanese.

The goal is to adopt inclusive design for 50% of new KOKUYO products!

Industrial and commercial design always has a user. We designers have been creating designs that incorporate new functions and mechanisms for mass users.

However, it has become increasingly difficult to see the smiles on users' faces just because of convenient functions, low cost, or beautiful design.

Inclusive design is to provide products and services to a diverse range of people by finding the design codes that are truly needed by working together with extreme users (disabled, elderly, non-Japanese, etc.), who have been hidden from the mass users who have been emphasized until now, from the planning stage.

In this session, we will look at the design process of With User rather than "For Used", introducing the Inclusive Design process that has actually been conducted at KOKUYO Corporation and the Inclusive Design Network.

Accessible, Hybrid, Multilingual Meetup
A11yTokyo Meetup is a unique meetup that features various genres of 'accessibility', conducted in a hybrid format of on-site and online broadcasting, primarily in Japanese and English.

Currently, he is in charge of a project to make 50% of KOKUYO's new products inclusive design. He is also active as a lecturer at Musashino Art University, Kobe Design University, and Tezukayama University to foster inclusive design for young people, and conducts various workshops for co-creation and empathy.

Access to Venue

Location: Open Collaboration Hub LODGE (LINE Yahoo Co., Ltd., Kioicho Office)

Address: 17th Floor, Garden Terrace Kioicho, 1-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (directly connected to Nagatacho Station)

The detail is documented in How to Get to the Venue

An entry pass is required. Please fill in your name on the Google form, and it will be given to you at the 2nd-floor reception.

*Online participation is planned via a Zoom webinar. URL and other details will be provided in advance.

Sponsors
Thanks to LINE Yahoo for providing their venue.