{"id":29490,"date":"2023-11-29T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hfrayling.com\/?p=29490"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:22:02","slug":"the-one-that-started-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfrayling.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/the-one-that-started-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The One That Started it all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is going to be a big one, so strap in folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My journey into accessibility started around 7 years ago, at university. A little module that tasked us with selecting a game or an app to redesign the UI, including in-depth UX research and explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I can tell you, my little heart soared throughout this whole module, because I decided to redesign Autodesk Sketchbook X. I also decided to look into making it both more cognitively and colour-blind accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many devs first port of call for colour-blind accessibility is colour filters, simulations that don’t actually resolve the barrier that is in place. I know a fair few colour-blind folks who work in creative industries, so the idea of running a filter over everything and just dusting my hands off felt disingenuous to my goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately a lot of the research I did is lost to time and graduation, but I do have all of my slides from my final submission, which includes the survey results that informed my decision making process for the final result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I was to do this again now, 7 years on…I’d increase the contrast a lot<\/strong> more, and look at improving the cognitive user flow even more to ensure an easy time using the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery should be in slide order, hopefully, and you can access a very janky PowerPoint mock-up of the redesign below too. Adobe XD was still a little wee baby app at that time so we did things the very rough and ready way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Redesign mockup<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n