Design Meets Disability - Hardcover

Pullin, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262162555 ISBN 13: 9780262162555

Publisher: Mit Pr, 2009

Synopsis

How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Pullin is a lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee. He has worked as a senior designer at IDEO, one of the world's leading design consultancies, and at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, a prominent rehabilitation engineering center in the United Kingdom. He has received international design awards for design for disability and for mainstream products.

Review

"There is huge potential for innovation in the daily lives of disabled people. Graham Pullin's timely and inspiring book describes a wide range of design challenges; many of these sound niche at first - but have broad potential. What are needed are off-the-wall thinking, design craft, and engineering brilliance -- plus disabled people as expert co-designers". --John Thackara, Designer and author of In the Bubble

(John Thackara)

"This book will change your emotional response to disability forever, as you discover that designs can celebrate a medical necessity, as in elegant and fashionable eyewear from Cutler and Gross, or openly express functionality, as in the carbon fiber running legs sported by Aimee Mullins. Graham Pullin creates this change with seven chapters that are rich with examples and luscious images, combining deep thinking with a light touch. In the second half of the book he presents us with a fascinating collection of his favorite designers, leaving us yearning for the meetings between design and disability that such rich talent might generate, given the opportunity."--Bill Moggridge, Cofounder of IDEO and author of Designing Interactions

(Bill Moggridge)

"As a teacher of design through the lens of disability, Graham Pullin is without peer."--Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab

(Hugh M. Herr)

" Design Meets Disability may be compared to Donald Norman's (1988) Psychology of Everyday Things, which showed how research in cognitive psychology can inform commercial design. Similarly, Design Meets Disability explains how commercial design principles can be used to make more personally identifiable and valuable assistive technologies. As important as Norman's book was to technology design, Design Meets Disability could have a similar impact within the AT field." Jeff Higginbotham Augmentative and Alternative Communication

"The book... acts as a manifesto by condemning many of the existing products designed for people with disabilities, and challenging designers to use their skills to develop inspiring alternatives." Alice Rawsthorn New York Times

"There is huge potential for innovation in the daily lives of disabled people. Graham Pullin"s timely and inspiring book describes a wide range of design challenges; many of these sound niche at first -- but have broad potential. What are needed are off-the-wall thinking, design craft, and engineering brilliance -- plus disabled people as expert co-designers." John Thackara , designer and author of In the Bubble

"This book will change your emotional response to designing for disability forever, as you discover that designs can celebrate a medical necessity, as in elegant and fashionable eyewear from Cutler and Gross, or openly express functionality, as in the carbon fiber running legs sported by Aimee Mullins. Graham Pullin creates this change with chapters that are rich with examples and luscious images, combining deep thinking with a light touch. In the second half of the book he presents us with a fascinating collection of his favorite designers, leaving us yearning for the meetings between design and disability that such rich talent might generate, given the opportunity." Bill Moggridge , Cofounder of IDEO and author of Designing Interactions

Edition details

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0262162555
• ISBN 13: 9780262162555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 341