A pattern filled with people, devices, tools, and assistive technologies.

Microsoft Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design is a methodology that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity

Inclusive Design Principles

Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. We seek out exclusions, and use them as opportunities to create new and better experiences.

Recognize exclusion

We acknowledge bias and recognize exclusions that happen because of mismatches between people and experience.

Learn from diversity

Inclusive Design puts people in the center throughout the process because their fresh, diverse perspectives are the key to true insight.

Solve for one, extend to many

Everyone has abilities and limits. Creating products for people with permanent disabilities creates results that benefit everyone.

Inclusive Design is for you

Whether you're a program manager, engineer, data scientist, designer, or anyone else who helps create products and services, Inclusive Design is a practice you can follow.

A woman using a sewing machine.

An Intro to Inclusive Design

A view into how we design for human motivations and needs.

A baby wearing a hat and jacket stares out a window.

Inclusive: The Film

How we create for human motivations and needs while seeking diversity as dynamic inspiration. 

Tools and guidance

Run an Inclusive Design sprint, create team activities for inclusion, and learn how to create products that support mental health and neurodiversity.

Use the tools
A computer screen showing a pencil and ruler

Real-world Examples

Inclusive Design is in action all around you. Check out these examples of products that have used Inclusive Design toolkits to create a more inclusive world.

Read examples
A mobile phone showing volume and sound vibrations

Lived experiences

Victor Pineda uses a motorized wheelchai and ventilator while looking away.

Victor

Victor Pineda, Urban Planner, Filmmaker.

Haben Girma, wearing a patterned blue dress, smiles and sits at an office conference table.

Haben

Haben Girma, JD, Disability Rights Advocate.

Antoine Hunter/Purple Fire Crow, a Deaf advocate, teaches a dance class.

Antoine

Antoine Hunter, Deaf Advocate, Dance Teacher, Choreographer.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson speaks while moving her hands.

Rosemarie

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Professor, Emory University.

Cognition and neurodiversity

Margaret Price looks away with a background of leafy trees behind her

How do you achieve focus?

A call to create systems that empathize with users and adjust the way they communicate

A person in profile looking away, an effect over their profile extends their profile into many lines.

Inclusive Design for Cognition

A call to create products that adapt to the many different ways we approach and achieve our goals.