Looking ahead

  1. Personas and Principles: Analyze the relationship between learner neurotypes and user experience principles, propose hypothesis and collect data.
  2. User feedback and observation: Collate user feedback and evaluate user observations to inform a design system based on accessibility principles.
  3. Neurodiversity Design System: Gather and detail principles and considerations that describe best practice to design an LMS based on current accessibility standards, learning neurotypes and user experience laws and principles.
    1. Publish broad design principles
    2. Refine and expand design principles into components incorporating global accessibility standards
      • Numbers
      • Font
      • Typography
      • Colour
      • Buttons, links and inputs
      • Interface (UI)
      • Communications
      • Animations
      • Contrast
      • Closed Captions
      • Audio
    3. Generate a style guide based on refined principles
    4. Create pattern guide based on user feedback and refined principles
    5. Create a component guide based on styles and refined principles
  4. User testing and observation: Advance NDS principles with findings in global user testing and observations.
  5. Neurodiversity LMS theme: Use findings and data to inform the design and build of an LMS theme specifically for educational institutions and organisations.

Updated: 22 January 2023