Read a chapter or two from the book "Disability Visibility", and answer the steps.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a creative writing writing question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.

Step 1: Read a chapter or two from the book “Disability Visibility” that interests you, and While you’re reading, watch for examples of the concepts we covered in class.

Here are the concepts we’ll use for this essay:

• The definition of design that we’re using for this class. If you want a reminder, look up Herbert Simon’s definition of design.

• The 3 roles of design: user, maker, and designer. Pay attention to how these roles affect each other. For example, how do the user’s needs and desires affect the designer’s choices? How do they affect the maker’s working conditions? Etc.

Step 2: Pick a Design

Pick a design from your chapter. Devices or tools are the easiest options, but you could also choose something else, like a building, a movie prop or a new manufacturing material.

Step 3: Write a short essay

Write a short, informal essay about this topic. Imagine you’re writing this for a friend who isn’t studying design. You can use informal, conversational language. But you also need to include enough information that your friend understands what you’re saying.

Your essay should be 750-1250 words long, and it should include this information:

• The name of the book you’re reading, and the chapter(s) you chose for this assignment. Pick a design from your chapter. Tell us about it. What is it? What does it do?
• In your own words, what is the definition of design that we are using for this class? How does our definition of design apply to the design from your book? What is the situation? How does the design improve the situation?
• For this design, who is the designer? Who is the maker? Who is the user? Describe their experiences. How do these roles influence each other?
• Finally, evaluate the design. What makes it a good design? What makes it a bad one? Did it completely solve a problem, or is there room for improvement? Did it solve one problem, but create other problems?

Step 4: Evaluate your work

This is your checklist to make sure you’ve included all of the important stuff. It will also help us find everything when we grade your assignment. We’ll use something like it for all of our deliverables.

Highlight the important stuff.

Read through your assignment. Use your word-processor’s highlighter tool to mark these things:

1. The title of your book
2. The title of the chapter(s) you read
3. A description of the design you chose
4. How our definition of design applies to this design
5. A description of the user, maker and designer
6. Your analysis of the design. How is it good? How is it bad?

Some of these sections may be several sentences long. Don’t worry about highlighting the whole thing. Just highlight the first few words, or the first sentence.