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Made For Us

Made For Us is a Signal Award-winning podcast for anyone who’s curious about how to design for inclusivity. An Apple Podcasts Editors" Choice, Made For Us entered Apple"s top 10 Design chart, reaching #2 in Canada and #3 in the U.S. Join us each week for conversations with founders, designers, product inclusion leaders and other creative minds who are challenging the status quo of how everyday products are designed. Each episode will bring you insights from people who"ve spent years thinking,

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32:21

Why isn’t all design inclusive? Season 1 wrap-up,...

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2024/03/07

This final episode of Season 1 ends with a question. It might be one you have too. Maybe you decided to check out this podcast because you wish more products were designed in an inclusive way. Over the past few months, guests on this podcast have shared some great examples of inclusive design and innovation, but these aren’t exactly the norm (yet).Joining me to explore some of the reasons why is Scott Berkun, author of How Design Makes the World, a book that aims to demystify design for everyone. We

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27:47

Widening the beauty net: how Guide Beauty reimagined...

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2024/02/29

On the day makeup artist Terri Bryant learned she had Parkinson's, she returned home and raided her makeup kit and her husband's toolbox. She quickly pinpointed what was lacking in the tools she’d been using for years: grip and stability. This sparked the creation of Guide Beauty, a brand dedicated to reimagining makeup artistry and proving it can be accessible to all, regardless of skill, ability, or disability.In today’s episode, we discuss:Adaptation and accommodation vs. authentic inclusionWhat

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21:53

Rooting for you: the male grooming brand winning over...

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2024/02/22

In the heart of South London, a bustling barbershop served as the birthplace for Aaron Wallace, the pioneering grooming brand dedicated to black men. Co-founders Aaron Wallace and Lina Barker share how everyday barbershop conversations about hair woes and aspirations inspired the creation of their acclaimed brand, now gracing the shelves of major retailers like Sainsbury's and Superdrug in the UK and Saks Fifth Avenue in the US.In today’s episode, we discuss:How barbershop dialogues helped the

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33:08

Cassa Pancho on designing the future of ballet

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2024/02/15

We'll soon be wrapping up our first season and we’re looking ahead to bringing you more great guests in Season 2! We'd love to hear your thoughts on the episodes so far and where we can improve. Please take our super-quick survey which you'll find here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Your input matters to us!This week's guest:In 2018, brown and bronze pointe shoes, tailored for dancers of colour, made their commercial debut in the UK — nearly two centuries after

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31:03

A payment card that talks: the new, inclusive tool in...

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2024/02/08

Help us design Season 2 of Made For Us! We're looking forward to bringing you more great guests and we'd love to get your feedback. Share your thoughts on the episodes so far and suggest potential guests in our quick 4-minute survey. Find it here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Your input matters to us!This week's episode:Paying with a card has become incredibly easy and safe, but for the 43 million blind people worldwide, that's not the case.Not only are blind

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20:27

Ahead of the curve, part 2: helmet innovation and...

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2024/02/01

The struggle to find a bicycle helmet that fits is more common than you might think. People with long hair, big hair, dreadlocks, cochlear implants, turbans…the list goes on. How are helmet manufacturers addressing the needs of diverse communities and what could the latest innovations in helmet technology mean for inclusivity? Randy Swart, executive director of the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, has answers to these questions and more.What we discuss in this episode:Challenges of designing helmets

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25:58

Ahead of the curve, part 1: the helmet designer...

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2024/01/25

Help us design Season 2 of Made For Us! We're looking forward to bringing you more great guests and we'd love to get your feedback. Share your thoughts on the episodes so far and suggest potential guests in our quick 4-minute survey. Find it here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Your input matters to us!This week's episode:What do you do when traditional bike helmets just don’t work for you? Forgo a helmet altogether or choose a different sport? Tina Singh chose

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29:49

‘The door is opening for us’: Cira Robinson on...

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2024/01/18

Enjoying Season 1 of Made For Us? Would you like to help shape future episodes of the podcast? If so, please share your feedback in our quick 4-minute survey. You'll find it here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Thanks!This week's episode:For decades, dancers of colour at classical ballet companies have used makeup to dye their pink pointe shoes a darker shade to match their skin tone. My guest this week, award-winning ballerina Cira Robinson, tells me about the

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23:15

A new level of gaming: designing video games for all...

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2024/01/11

As a gamer living with a disability, Vivek Gohil has strong opinions about the accessibility of video games. Diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at the age of nine, his muscles have become weaker over the years but that hasn’t deterred him from gaming. He now uses his experience to advise game developers and console makers on improving gaming for people like himself with severe motor disabilities. In this interview, he talks about the solutions he’s found, including coding accessibility

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23:33

Game on: levelling the playing field for gamers with...

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2024/01/04

Enjoying Season 1 of Made For Us? Would you like to play a part in shaping future episodes? If so, please share your feedback in our quick 4-minute survey. You'll find it here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Thanks!This week's guest:When it comes to improving the accessibility of video games, it’s often simple things that can make a big difference, says Mick Donegan, my guest this week. Since 2007, the charity he founded, SpecialEffect, has helped thousands of

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34:12

Bridging the gap, part 2: How data is shaping the...

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2023/12/22

Your feedback is important to us — shape the future of Made For Us by taking our quick survey and sharing your insights: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. This week's guest:When pitching their inclusive eyewear brand to investors, Reframd ’s co-founders Shariff Vreugd and Ackeem Ngwenya often faced doubts about whether a market existed for their product. But if you look beyond the West, says Shariff, the opportunity is massive. In the second of a two-part series on inclusive brands disrupting the eyewear

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31:00

Bridging the gap, part 1: crafting eyewear for...

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2023/12/21

Would you like to help shape future episodes of Made For Us? If so, please share your feedback and ideas for potential guests in our quick 4-minute survey. You'll find it here or by pasting this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. Thanks!This week's guests:After struggling for years to find glasses that fit comfortably, Athina Wang and Florence Shin realised that it was the eyewear industry that needed to change and not them. That was the inspiration for launching Covry, an inclusive

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26:06

Making it as a plus size male model, with Raul Samuel...

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2023/12/14

“Where are the plus size male models?” It’s a question the Internet seemed to be asking just a few years ago. Now, a six-pack is no longer a prerequisite to grace the pages of the top fashion magazines. It’s proof, says my guest, Raul Samuel, that there's demand for more realistic-looking models. Still, as we discuss in the interview, not everyone in the fashion industry is convinced. Some of the topics we cover in this conversation:Why the fashion industry has been slow to accept plus size male

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45:35

‘No going back’: lessons from P&G’s product inclusion...

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2023/12/07

Sam Latif, P&G's first Company Accessibility Leader, joins me this week to share how she is driving innovation to make the company’s 65+ brands inclusive and accessible for the 15% of people around the globe who experience some form of disability. Sam’s passion for her work stems from her personal experiences as a mother of three who is blind. In her current role, Sam is focused on embedding accessibility into P&G brands such as Pantene, Gillette, Ariel and Pampers.In our conversation, we

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30:58

A perfect match: how bandages became inclusive, with...

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2023/11/30

For many people of colour, wearing a plaster, or Band-Aid, that blends with their skin tone is a novel experience. While inclusive bandages are now widely available in countries like the UK and US, that's only happened in the last few years.My two guests share their unique perspectives on this. Intisar Bashir is the co-founder and CEO of Browndages, one of the first companies to offer bandages in a range of skin tones, before giants like Johnson & Johnson seized on the opportunity. My other

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32:07

'Plus size' men's clothing: fashion's best kept...

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2023/11/23

When Charlotte Griffiths’ agency BRIDGE launched the UK’s first men’s division for bigger, broader male models in 2016, it was based on a hunch that the fashion industry was ready to embrace men of different shapes and sizes. In this week’s interview, Charlotte tells me how her gamble paid off and why brands need to let go of outdated stereotypes around men and fashion.Charlotte is the owner and Managing Director of BRIDGE, a talent management agency established in 2014 that represents models and

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48:17

Unlocking innovation through disability inclusion,...

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2023/11/16

Your feedback is important to us — shape the future of Made For Us by taking our quick survey and sharing your insights: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. This week's guest:When Hector Minto joined Microsoft seven years ago, he knew it was time to bring disability inclusion into the mainstream. In this episode, Microsoft’s Lead Technology Evangelist on accessibility tells me why “this is not a niche topic anymore” and why companies need to get ahead of regulation and build accessible products. Hector

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29:00

BONUS: Reflections on creating the headscarf emoji,...

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2023/11/09

Your feedback is important to us — shape the future of Made For Us by taking our quick survey and sharing your insights: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. This week's guest:Do you have what it takes to create your own emoji? My guest, Rayouf Alhumedhi, did just that when she launched the Hijab Emoji Project at the age of 16 to push for digital representation for Muslim women around the world. She was named one of Time magazine’s most influential teens and also featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list

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26:57

The emoji puzzle: how to fit everyone in, with...

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2023/11/09

As emoji usage has gone global over the past decade, demand for more inclusive emoji has soared. But how effectively can emoji capture human diversity? And what challenges does this pose from a design perspective? I’ll be exploring these questions and more in a two-part special on emoji. First up is Keith Broni, the editor-in-chief of Emojipedia,the world's #1 emoji resource. Keith oversees changes to emoji sets from major vendors like Apple and Google, as well as interpreting emoji usage and

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29:40

Changing the narrative around accessible fashion,...

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2023/11/02

Your feedback is important to us — shape the future of Made For Us by taking our quick survey and sharing your insights: https://bit.ly/madeforuspod. This week's guest:Maura Horton is the CEO and Founder of MagnaReady, a company that provides accessible apparel for those with limited dexterity. Maura developed the concept for MagnaReady after her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and struggled to dress himself independently. She invented and eventually patented a magnetic closure system

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