Inclusive design tools

This section gives a detailed explanation of supplementary tools that accompany the Getting started section.

A video showing some of these tools in action is available on the About us section of the Designing with people website.

Design process checklist

Contains a downloadable Excel spreadsheet that helps you review an existing design process.

Integrated design log

Contains a downloadable Excel spreadsheet to support all of the activities within the Getting started section.

Business case materials

Contains a downloadable Excel spreadsheet that helps you build a business case.

Exclusion calculator

Allows you to assess the demands that a task places on the user’s capabilities, and therefore evaluate the proportion of the UK population who would be unable to achieve this task.

Cambridge simulation gloves

Gloves that simulate dexterity impairment are available for sale.

Cambridge simulation glasses

Glasses that simulate visual impairment are available for sale.

Impairment simulator software

Enables you to experience the effects of different impairments on a sample set of audio clips and images, or an image that you have uploaded.

Example set of personas

View an example set of personas that were developed to accompany a training exercise.

  

The "Inclusive design tools" section was authored by Ian Hosking and Sam Waller