Title: Innovation for Accessibility

Prompt: This weekend, your team’s challenge is to design an innovative tech solution which addresses an issue related to sustainability, equity, or accessibility. This sentiment is capture in our goal of “creating innovative tech that leaves no human behind”.

To be clear, your proposed solution does not need to focus solely on one of these issues. Instead, it must reflect consideration for these important areas and somehow impact them through your concept.

<aside> 💡 For example, one might imagine an e-commerce app that reduces clothing waste by letting users sell their old clothing or identify local donation centers.

Solution: E-commerce Domain: Fashion, retail Issue: Clothing waste & sustainability

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Reflect on the lessons in Carol’s lecture!

It was full of valuable considerations that you should leverage as you design.

Carol Smith: Ethics and Trust for Emerging Technologies

Slides below:

Ethics and Trust for Emerging Technologies.pdf

Bennett’s Crash Course on Accessibility, Equity, and Sustainability in Design

XHacks_Accessibility_Crash_Course.pdf

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