{"id":35340,"date":"2018-07-25T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=413400"},"modified":"2018-07-25T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:03:23","slug":"how-gamers-with-disabilities-helped-design-the-new-xbox-adaptive-controllers-elegantly-accessible-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/how-gamers-with-disabilities-helped-design-the-new-xbox-adaptive-controllers-elegantly-accessible-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"How gamers with disabilities helped design the new Xbox Adaptive Controller\u2019s elegantly accessible packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/how-gamers-with-disabilities-helped-design-the-new-xbox-adaptive-controllers-elegantly-accessible-packaging.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Romney said the experience has made him think about packaging differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have customers in our store every single day who buy product. I look at our laptop boxes and how they have to be opened. How many steps, how much packaging and how much of a barrier do each of those pieces become to someone with a mobility limitation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney thinks the Xbox Adaptive Controller packaging has the potential to set a new standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to change how we look at things in the industry, in terms of how we make boxes. And I think it has to,\u201d he said. \u201cI think as a case study of inclusive design, the Xbox Adaptive Controller is going to make a brilliant example of how you do it, and how you include your audience and design <em>with<\/em> a population, rather than <em>for<\/em> a population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Marshall and Weiser, the packaging project was challenging, time-consuming \u2014 and ultimately rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really powerful experience,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cI don\u2019t think you realize, until you\u2019re required to think differently, what you take for granted. As a designer, when you see things through a completely different lens, it\u2019s paradigm-shifting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said Weiser: \u201cWe put in a lot of extra time on it, but it was a pleasure to be able to work on this type of project. It\u2019s great that we\u2019re focused on this as a company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussions are underway about how Microsoft might use the learnings from the Xbox Adaptive Controller packaging. Marshall hopes the deceptively simple-looking box can serve as a springboard for future efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s certainly changing how we\u2019re looking at packaging. We\u2019re excited about moving forward from this point with a new lens and looking at what we can do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to take this journey on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney said the experience has made him think about packaging differently. \u201cWe have customers in our store every single day who buy product. I look at our laptop boxes and how they have to be opened. How many steps, how much packaging and how much of a barrier do each of those pieces become to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-35340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}