Inclusive UX in an era of anxiety

Illustration: Via Mary Long on Adobe Stock. Article by Cara Brashears. UX Collective – May 28, 2021.

It’s more important than ever to consider mental health while designing.

Accessibility continues to be an important topic across multiple industries, yet mental health, and specifically anxiety, don’t often immediately come to mind as a piece of the puzzle.

Considering the skyrocketing rates of mental illness throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — plus many more of us struggling with daily stressors and mood swings that may lead us to irrational negative thinking —how often are we asking ourselves, “How will someone with anxiety experience our product/service/feature? How can we make that better? […]

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