Guiding principles towards inclusive design: research notes for meaningful change

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https://doi.org/10.51358/id.v20i2.1093

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Educational media (games, animations, virtual labs) offer expansive content to various audiences and often use multiple modes to provide a meaningful learning experience. Unlike their counterparts designed solely for entertainment, educational media are designed to transform the learner and often require a combination of visual, audible, and interactive components. When integrating inclusive design practices, development teams and educators work to ensure that learners with various needs can use any given material for its entire purpose, that they feel represented, and that they can relate to the media while learning. This article presents research notes from one information designer working with a development team toward inclusive design practices. It provides a set of guiding principles to use when applying inclusive design to educational media as a way for design teams to build their own frameworks for creating more meaningful transformational media.

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Matheus Cezarotto, New Mexico State University

Matheus Cezarotto (he/his) is a researcher at the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Learning Games Lab. He provides inclusive design expertise for the team’s educational technology products, including learning games, animations, and virtual labs, and researches how these affordances support learning. Dr. Cezarotto publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, workshops, and teaching provide practical and research-based resources, including a framework to allow developers and design students to discuss accessibility, identify barriers in educational media, and act in their design processes to make their products more inclusive.

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2023-11-07

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Cezarotto, M. (2023). Guiding principles towards inclusive design: research notes for meaningful change. InfoDesign - Brazilian Journal of Information Design, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.51358/id.v20i2.1093

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