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What is a design-for-extremes strategy?
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Setting each requirement from the user at the limit rather than the average: reach, force and readability from the least capable user, clearance and capacity from the largest.
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How do you tell which extreme a requirement comes from?
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Ask whether it lets somebody IN or lets something THROUGH. Access requirements come from the least capable user; space and capacity requirements from the largest.
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Give two advantages of designing for extremes.
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Nobody is designed out, because the requirement is met across the whole range; and one product serves everybody, so there is no special version to design and stock, and no stigma.
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Name products designed for an extreme that everybody uses.
Answer
Dropped kerbs, designed for wheelchairs and used by every pram and suitcase; lever door handles, an arthritis solution now standard; subtitles, for deaf viewers and watched by about a third of viewers.
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