Daily Design

Shared Accessibility

“Accessibility works best when participation feels intuitive, welcoming, and easy to understand.”

Daily Design is a participatory accessibility exhibit and installation created as a senior capstone project at Stevenson University. The project explores how design principles — scale, spacing, balance, proximity, and contrast — shape everyday experiences, and invites non-designers to reflect on and contribute to a collaborative visual system.

Rather than presenting accessibility as a technical subject for specialists, the exhibit used physical interaction, approachable language, and collective participation to make design principles visible and meaningful to a broad audience.

Background

At the start of this project, I assumed that non-designers often view accessibility as something consistent and overly technical; something “for specialists” instead of a shared responsibility. I also assumed that co-design only works effectively when guided and led by designers.