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Accessibility + IBM Watson?
What's machine learning and what can designers do with it? The NCSU 1st year Masters of Graphic Design Studio took on just this question over the course of the semester. We began… -
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A Bag of Beacons: Enabling Personal Mobility
This fall, the NC State graphic design junior studio spent two weeks collaborating with the SAS accessibility team. The goal: remove barriers to independent personal mobility for people with visual impairments or… -
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Making Astronomy Accessible
This week, Alexandra Grossi (NCSU MGD '17) and I travelled to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. There we met with a team of researchers and educators committed to making the study of astronomy… -
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What Does That Say? A Low Vision Design Workshop at Drake
A few years ago I traveled to Des Moines to work with graphic design students at Drake University. We spent two days discussing, concepting, prototyping and testing data visualizations for low vision… -
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Re-envisioning the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’s Acro Exhibition as an Autism Friendly Space
Last semester the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences asked NC State graphic designer seniors in my special topics studio to take on a complex problem. One of their key exhibitions—the Acrocanthosaurus Exhibition—was not an autism… -
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How might designers create data visualizations for low-vision users?
Undergraduate graphic design students at NC State University collaborated with SAS Analytics to answer this question as they explored how SAS products might be made accessible to a range of low vision…
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