Designing for Human Diversity: Accessibility, Culture and Empathy

- Date: Monday 27 October 2025, 09:00 – 16:00
- Location: Clothworkers Building Central and Link
- Cost: £275
Explore how inclusive design can meet the diverse needs of users across accessibility, culture, and experience with PACE.
Professional Academy for Creative Enterprise (PACE) onsite courses offer a range of in-person teaching and learning experiences at our University of Leeds campus.
This course combines expert-led teaching with practical workshops to help you design with empathy, understand accessibility, and recognise the impact of cognitive bias, empowering you to create more thoughtful, human-centred solutions.
What Will You Learn?
- Understand what accessibility means and how it applies across digital and physical design.
- Explore how disability is defined and identified within different design contexts.
- Learn methods for designing with accessibility as a core principle.
- Examine the impact of cultural diversity on user needs and design responses.
- Learn practical skills to incorporate cultural sensitivity into your design processes.
- Develop strategies to address the wide range of human abilities in inclusive design.
- Identify how cognitive bias can unconsciously shape design outcomes.
- Learn how to harness cognitive bias positively to support more inclusive design thinking.
Led by Dr. Kimberly Sheen, Lecturer in Digital Design and Communication.
Find out more and sign up here.