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Kat Holmes

Kat Holmes

How Bad Design Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes

Specialized solutions for disadvantaged people often have more to do with negative perceptions than actual needs

Oct 3, 2018

How Bad Design Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes

Oct 3, 2018

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AIGA Eye on Design

What We’re Leaving Out of the Discussion Around Inclusive Design

To truly achieve inclusiveness, we need to first look at who we’re excluding.

Aug 28, 2018

What We’re Leaving Out of the Discussion Around Inclusive Design

Aug 28, 2018

Kat Holmes

The Flood | 50,000 gallons and 35,000 words

My first mistake in writing a book was assuming that I’d simply expand on stuff that I’d already written. I had spent years researching…

Apr 4, 2018

The Flood | 50,000 gallons and 35,000 words

Apr 4, 2018

Kat Holmes

Mismatch | How Inclusion Shapes Design

“Disability is a mismatched interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live” —…

Mar 30, 2018

Mismatch | How Inclusion Shapes Design

Mar 30, 2018

Kat Holmes

John Maeda & Kat Holmes on Designing for Inclusiveness

We all feel it — our technology feels like a century ahead of us, while our behaviors are reflective of decades before us. The systemic…

Feb 1, 2018

John Maeda & Kat Holmes on Designing for Inclusiveness

Feb 1, 2018

Kat Holmes

The Art of a More Perfect Union

I’m sitting at the base of the White House. Public Enemy’s Fight the Power fills the air. The preamble of the Constitution is running…

Jan 20, 2017

The Art of a More Perfect Union

Jan 20, 2017

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Microsoft Design

Who Gets to Play?

“Inclusive Design doesn’t mean you’re designing one thing for all people. You’re designing a diversity of ways to participate so everyone…

Oct 15, 2016

Who Gets to Play?

Oct 15, 2016

Kat Holmes

Kat Holmes

Senior VP @Salesforce | Author of Mismatch @MITPress | Founder Mismatch.design | Prev: @Microsoft @Google | #InclusiveDesign

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