UX Personas as an Inclusive Design Tool for Accessibility

Personas are fictionalized representations of different types of users that come into contact with your product or service, in this webinar, we will dive into how to create accessibility personas that represent people with disabilities.

Denis Boudreau and Caitlin Geier, two of our UX accessibility experts, will talk about creating personas that you can use to promote inclusive design in your workplace and to design websites and applications which work for a broad variety of people. This is the first part of our new UX and Inclusive Design webinar series.

In this webinar you will learn:

• What personas are, and how they fit into the UX process
• How representing disabilities and other needs in personas influence design decisions
• How designing for inclusion informs the overall design process
• How designing for extreme cases results in a better user experience for everyone
• How to build your own accessibility personas to create a more inclusive product

Watch below:

Jump to specific parts of the video using our chapters list:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 6:12 What is a Persona & How To Make One
• 11:20 Connecting Personas to Real People
• 18:20 Making Personas Inclusive: Introducing Modular Personas
• 26:11 Designing for Extreme Cases
• 28:19 Conclusion
• 31:53 Q&A

Extend lessons learned from the webinar by trying Deque University's excellent and self-paced accessibility in design courses.