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Kat Holmes

Kat Holmes

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Oct 3, 2018

How Bad Design Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes

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

How Bad Design Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes

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AIGA Eye on Design

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Kat Holmes

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Aug 28, 2018

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.

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

Kat Holmes

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Apr 4, 2018

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…

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

Kat Holmes

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Mar 30, 2018

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” —…

Mismatch | How Inclusion Shapes Design

Kat Holmes

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Feb 1, 2018

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…

John Maeda & Kat Holmes on Designing for Inclusiveness

Kat Holmes

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Jan 20, 2017

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…

The Art of a More Perfect Union

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Microsoft Design

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Kat Holmes

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Oct 15, 2016

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…

Who Gets to Play?

Kat Holmes

Kat Holmes

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

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