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Inclusive Design Patterns For 2026

Hosted by Vitaly Friedman

Fri, Feb 27, 2026

6:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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How To Measure UX and Design Impact
Vitaly Friedman
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What you'll learn

Expand how you think about accessibility

Move beyond contrast and font sizes to include motion sensitivity, neurodiversity, and diverse abilities.

Design for real people, not edge cases

Learn practical approaches for designing for left-handed users, neurodiverse users, and younger and older adults.

Measure accessibility impact

Understand how to assess accessibility beyond compliance and connect inclusive design to real outcomes.

Apply accessibility in real-world contexts

Explore good and bad examples of how teams implement accessibility and drive change inside organizations.

Why this topic matters

Accessibility isn’t a checklist or a one-time compliance task. Designing inclusive experiences improves usability for everyone, reduces risk, and creates better products. By understanding diverse needs and measuring accessibility beyond compliance, teams can build more resilient products, influence organizational change, and clearly demonstrate the business value of inclusive design.

You'll learn from

Vitaly Friedman

20 years of experience • Senior UX Lead @ EU Parliament • Speaker • SmashingMag

Worked with European Parliament, Zalando, OTTO, Marc O'Polo, Axel Springer SE, REWE Digital, Alliander etc. (LinkedIn).


Vitaly is the founder, editor-in-chief and UX lead of Smashing Magazine since 2006, an online magazine for designers and developers, where he helps curate friendly, inclusive front-end & UX conferences (SmashingConfs).

He is working with companies worldwide to improve the UX of complex systems and intricate design challenges — but also measure UX and design impact, design effective AI experiences and improve internal workflows.

Through his articles, books, talks, trainings and video courses he has taught 45,000 designers around the world practical insights to design digital products that people actually use, value and perhaps even fall in love with.

Previously at

European Parliament
Haufe Group
Otto Group
Axel Springer SE
SmashingConf

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