Instead of thinking of accessibility as an add-on to reach more users, Inclusive Design modifies the product design process to reach everyone.

The idea is to use human diversity as a resource to design for 8 billion people.

These principles have been borrowed from Microsoft Design and used in the context of Web 3.0:

🧐 Recognize exclusion

Exclusion is a result of mismatched interactions between humans and society (technology, environment, etc.). Our inherent biases make interactions easy for some people but not for everyone. This exclusion is not necessarily permanent, it can be temporary or situational hence extending to all humans.

Physical museums are currently more accessible than virtual NFT art galleries. What if we add alt-text to NFTs as a requirement? So that not only blind & low vision people can be included but it can also help us all understand the project and what makes that $1M art so special.

👪 Learn from diversity

Design insights come from excluded humans adapting to mismatched interactions. Using these insights to have technology to adapt to us; not vice versa.

What will be the experience of a child in El Salvador paying for candy in cryptocurrency? This results in questions like: Can there be a cheap hardware wallet that can be easily loaded by parents for pocket money?

♾ Solve for one, extend to many

A solution that works in a constrained space, works in an unconstrained space. Moreover, it works for someone rather than no one.

If my grandma can upload her photos to IPFS (decentralized storage), I can too. What's the equivalent of iCloud Photos auto-sync in the Web 3.0 world?