Elizabeth Buie / Older Adults: Are We Really Designing for Our Future Selves? #id24 2024

Advice on design for older adults urges us to think of our future selves. This promotes empathy with older users but hints that the design challenges for today’s older people will be the same in 20 or 50 years. Some issues will remain: body and mind do change with age. Issues begin at different ages and proceed at different rates, and design must always consider them. Other issues depend on knowledge. What YOU know when you’re older will differ from what today’s older people know. This talk will explain the differences and how to handle them. About the speaker Elizabeth is a UX consultant and independent researcher who specialises in design for older adults and for transcendent experiences. In almost five decades in industry she has contributed to the UX of websites, mobile apps, kiosks, and control systems, for audiences from NASA controllers to the worldwide general public. Elizabeth is passionate about adapting academic research methods to UX practice, promoting design to be inclusive of older adults, and singing medieval polyphony. She holds a PhD in design research from Northumbria University. https://inclusivedesign24.org/

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