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While I appreciate inclusive design getting more interest in the public forum, I think there's a dangerous underpinning to articles like this one. I like to call it "design saviorism" - emphasizing the power of a designer over the user. https://twitter.com/uxdesigncc/status/1354812230504640521
"The designer’s challenge and honorable mission is to create a product accessible to as many people as possible and emphasize their abilities, not limitations." Using words like "honorable mission" make it seem like designers are some sort of idealized superhero. We aren't.
a designer's honorable mission should not be to thrust their designs on the world, but to emphasize and uplift those who are excluded by co-designing with the user.
This article doesn't acknowledge disability culture and experience - "Have you, as a designer, ever thought about how it feels to have a disability? ...That’s a good moment to try navigating your newly-designed app with only one hand. I’m joking, of course. Or not."
Pretending to have a disability for the sake of testing an app isn't a 1:1 with learning from the experience of a disabled person using an app. It's just condescending.
