Hi! In today's episode we'll cover a rather unusual case study. If you're interested in how a navigation system for visualy impaired can work, or what it's like to design without caring about UI too much, this episode with our guest Mateus Bagatini - Lead UX designer at LiNKX is for you!

Agenda:

- 2:42 Accessibility in Japan

- 6:55 Visualy impaired users and smartphones

- 8:47 How the navigation system works (shikAI)?

- 15:32 Tackling issues of commuters

- 17:47 Culture corner

- 19:44 How to test such design?

- 21:45 How to learn about accessibility?

- 24:59 Design & development process + learnings

Mentioned materials:

[ENG] Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - https://amzn.to/3iDs0JW

[PL] SIĘGAJ JAK NAJDALEJ: Dlaczego ludzie o szerokich zainteresowaniach wygrywają w wyspecjalizowanym świecie - https://amzn.to/3pMnqdE

Overview of shikAI app (videos + screenshots) - linkx.dev/en/shikai

YouTube videos about shikAI - https://bit.ly/3xll9sm

Mateus'es article about shikAI - https://note.com/mateusrezende/n/n68daf7e2fc6a

World Report on Disability by WHO - https://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report.pdf

About Mateus Bagatini:

Mateus is a lead UX designer at LiNKX, a Japanese product consulting firm with a focus on digital transformation. Although he has been working under the ‘UX designer’ title for the past six years, he has been developing projects as a graphic designer, ethnographic researcher, and content creator since graduating from the Communication and Media university in Brazil. Besides his role as a UX designer, Mateus also has developed various projects with a focus on social business, empowerment of minorities through designer courses, and acceleration programs to early-stage startups and entrepreneurs. In early 2020 he also became part of the steering committee of Hyper Island’s UX Designer Course, where sometimes he also participates as a lecturer. Of course, like many designers, he also has a few hobbies like hosting a breakfast pop-up restaurant, practicing tea ceremony in Tokyo, where he lives, and most recently learning how to artisanally blow glass.

Music - Bensound.com