Accessibility-First Redesign of an Airport AR Navigation Feature
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Redesign an airport AR navigation overlay for four traveler profiles, then build a high-fidelity prototype and earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The startup sells augmented-reality wayfinding to airport operators across Europe and is around 80 people; its 18 airport contracts make accessibility-law compliance a direct revenue risk, not a nice-to-have, because operators can be fined and can drop a non-compliant vendor.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Redesign an airport augmented-reality navigation feature for four disability profiles so it passes European Accessibility Act review, backed by field evidence from disabled travelers.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate legal accessibility requirements into concrete, testable interaction decisions
- Design one adaptable interaction system that serves multiple disability profiles without forking the product
- Plan and run an ethical contextual inquiry with disabled participants in a real, high-stakes environment
- Evaluate an augmented-reality overlay against vision, motor, cognitive, and language barriers
- Communicate a compliance and design roadmap that non-technical leadership can defend
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Design For Accessibility
Apply design for accessibility to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Interaction Design
Apply interaction design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Contextual Inquiry
Apply contextual inquiry to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Ar Design
Apply ar design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Centered Design
Apply user centered design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Hci Research Methods
Apply hci research methods to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Accessibility-Focused Mobile Engineer
This challenge builds the core of an accessibility engineering role: auditing a live feature against accessibility law, designing one adaptable interaction system for diverse needs, and shipping a runnable prototype that real disabled users can operate on a phone.
This challenge sharpens
- design-for-accessibility
- interaction-design
- ar-design
Augmented-Reality Interaction Designer
By redesigning a camera-overlay navigation experience for vision, motor, and cognitive constraints, you practice the augmented-reality and interaction design judgment that AR product teams hire for, grounded in how people actually move through physical space.
This challenge sharpens
- ar-design
- interaction-design
- user-centered-design
User Researcher, Inclusive Products
Running an ethical contextual inquiry with disabled travelers in a live airport develops the field-research craft inclusive-product teams need: planning consent and safety, observing real task performance, and converting evidence into design decisions.
This challenge sharpens
- contextual-inquiry
- hci-research-methods
- user-centered-design