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The Unfair Index Survey

TheCatWoman

I don't know if any of you have seen the link for this or have done it. But it interested me, then I couldn't think of a single thing I could think of as needing a redesign to make my life easier. Well, apart from pretty much the whole of society, noise in shops, noisy neighbours, addlepated customer service assistants, stuff like that.

The only thing I could think of would be one that wouldn't be popular with anyone else, making things manual and analogue again, not digital, no more press 1 for this, 2 for that and 3 for everything else. I don't want to do everything online, or worse on a smart phone I don't have that I don't know how to use anyway. I want shops, real shops that sell things and don't tell you to look online when they don't have your size or colour.

How can I say, that I want bra's that fit me and when I say I don't want bones in it, I mean I don't want bones in it, not just I don't want underwires. How do I say I want trousers that have legs long enough for me and a body bit thats not more like a hat band? That I want tops that will cover my nipples?

All these things would make my life easier and pleasanter, but I can't see that without redesigning society that I'm going to get any of it. I'd probably just get patronised again

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  • Yes, there is far too much 'noise' everywhere. But some people like it like this. And this is the also the nub of why creating new design concepts for specialist abilities is very complex - because of the diversity of people even within subset groups. I did work for BIME for a few years - a team of scientists researching designs for specialist diverse-ability equipment. I like the idea in concept, but it does need a huge amount of costly logistics. Even so, if you are so troubled about failing finding a 'fit' in a large number of areas, it would be worth joining this valuable project. Thanks for bringing this project up,  - you often write of not fitting in/not knowing what's going on, but in my experience you often know about interesting projects before anyone else.

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  • Yes, there is far too much 'noise' everywhere. But some people like it like this. And this is the also the nub of why creating new design concepts for specialist abilities is very complex - because of the diversity of people even within subset groups. I did work for BIME for a few years - a team of scientists researching designs for specialist diverse-ability equipment. I like the idea in concept, but it does need a huge amount of costly logistics. Even so, if you are so troubled about failing finding a 'fit' in a large number of areas, it would be worth joining this valuable project. Thanks for bringing this project up,  - you often write of not fitting in/not knowing what's going on, but in my experience you often know about interesting projects before anyone else.

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