Curb cut effect and your project
Designing for accessibility has become a popular ideology among designers recently, as it helps people with disabilities to use their products easily. Another advantage of this is that these design changes will also help the general users to have a more pleasant user experience. This phenomenon is known as the curb cut effect. From this article, we will discuss more about this phenomenon and the advantages that you as a designer can achieve by designing for accessibility.
What is a curb-cut? 🤷♀️
Most likely, you have probably used a curb cut yourself. A curb cut is referred to the slope of the sidewalk that creates a ramp with the adjoining lane. This has benefited people with disabilities to use a sidewalk more easily. Nevertheless, the advantages of a cut extended to everyone like cyclists and elderly people. That is how the term curb cut effect came into use in the context of accessibility designing.
Examples of curb cut effect. 👨💻
The best example of curb cut effect are closed captions. Closed captions or already known as subtitles, first came to use for people with hearing disabilities, but it…
