Promoting Design for All in Finland. Experiences of sucessfull collaboration of users and designers in the University of Art and Design Helsinki

Abstract

This paper aims to bring together new and existing information as published by Design for All practitioners at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. Design for All is about ensuring that environments, products, services and interfaces work for people of all ages and abilities. Since many researchers, design professionals and students are interested in methods of Design for All, we will share experiences, information, methods, tools and examples about the recent use of Design for All in Finland. In addition, this paper describes how Design for All can be used in education. We introduce how to motivate inclusive design in design processes, and provide a range of practical examples to support Design for All projects. All the references are available at https://reseda.taik.fi/. Practical examples are available at http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/, http://lemill.net/, http://arki.uiah.fi/, http://sysrep.uiah.fi/, and http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/