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DESIGN WITH HEART Age-Friendly Design in Practice
Hardcover
Aging & Elder CareGeneral ComputersGeneral Design
Publisher Price: $44.90
ISBN13: 9789655978865
Publisher: Design4all
Published: Apr 6 2026
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We are building a world that millions of older adults cannot fully use-and we call it innovation.
Every day, older adults struggle with apps, packaging, healthcare portals, and smart technologies never truly designed with them in mind. What we dismiss as user error is often something far more uncomfortable: quiet, systemic, and largely unintentional ageist exclusion.
Design With Heart is the response.
Written by Prof. Ron Nabarro-designer, educator, and older adult-this book draws on more than fifty years of international design practice and twenty-five years of dedicated age-friendly work to offer what the design world has been missing: a deeply human, practice-grounded framework for creating products, services, and environments that respect the full arc of human life.
Rather than offering generic accessibility guidelines or compliance formulas, Nabarro reveals the subtle emotional and cognitive realities of aging that most designers overlook: the hesitation before clicking a button, the quiet shame of struggling with fine print in a supermarket aisle, the loss of confidence when a scrolling app disorients a user mid-task. These are not inconveniences-they are signals embedded in design.
What you'll discover inside:
- Why solutions that work for older adults improve usability for everyone-and why the reverse is rarely true
- How to move beyond accessibility checkboxes toward genuine cognitive and emotional inclusion
- The psychology of self-efficacy-and how design either strengthens or erodes confidence
- How AI, IoT, social robots, and extended reality can empower or alienate aging users
- A practical Design with Heart framework for embedding empathy into every stage of a project
- Honest guidance on the digital divide, aging identity, independence, and the emotional weight of later life
Who this book is for:
Design With Heart speaks directly to anyone shaping human experience-project managers, product designers, UX practitioners, architects, service designers, policymakers, and organizational leaders. If you work under real deadlines and real constraints yet still want your designs to serve people with dignity, this book was written for you.
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