How the blind use technology to see the world | Austin Seraphin | TEDxPhiladelphia
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How do blind people use the iPhone? That’s a question computer programmer Austin Seraphin - blind since birth - wanted to know. In this surprisingly funny and personal talk, Austin shares how technology changed his universe and what it means to make apps, gadgets and even street art accessible to all, sighted or not.
Austin Seraphin became blind at birth, and he started programming at age 7 on an Apple II/e. Now, he blends his passion for technology with a first-hand insight into how tech affects the lives of the blind. In 2010, he got an iPhone, which changed his universe forever. It has inspired him to work with developers to make their apps accessible to all.
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Google UX Design course brought me here and I am happy for it. Austin, you are super positive and astounding. I understand some of things way clearer now. This video was very important to me, again I am motivated and inspired. Thank you for that, I promise I will be the best version of myself in digital designing.
Same here. I used to think about accessibility issues but always thought they were not very practical for a company.
me three... After watching this I realized I was the blind one for not knowing all this. This really inspires me to be a better designer and to bring accessability to the next level. He is rigtht that this is not an added feature, it is basic needs that need to be equally included for everyone.
same man 💪🏽
me too
same here too
"transportation, banking, groceries, doing the laundry...these are not extra 'nice things to have,' these are basic amenities that someone needs to have to live independently and with dignity." This is such a powerful statement.
I met Austin today thanks to Google UX Design Course. Living independently with dignity is what accessibility is all about. For me, this goes beyond going through a certificate program, this is seeing humanity with an inclusive lens.
I'm glad I'm here because now, I fully understand what empathy is all about. Thanks Austin, you rock!
Haha that's why I'm here too! Good luck in the course.
So well said!
Thumbs up for Google UX Design course bringing me here 👍
Bigger thumbs up for Austin sharing experiences and enlightening us to the world that the blind live in every day, all with nice touches of comedy throughout 👍👍 Great talk and an even greater reminder that designing with accessibility in mind improves products and lives for everyone. A case where the rising tide floats all boats when we include people of different circumstances in what we create.
me too
Me too. Google UX design course brought me here
same! can you please tell me how the course went for you? did you start working as a UX designer?
@@sarahamili3501 I'm still looking to secure an internship. But I'm glad for the opportunity. It is indeed an amazing course. If you see it through and put in the work, you'll be glad you did.
@@Kenechukwuezeofor thanks for replying! best of luck with your internship searching :)
Here after the Google UX Design course. Thanks Austin! :)
Thanks to the Google UX Design Course, I was fortunate enough to come across Austin's talk, and I must say, he is amazing. His insights into his struggles and how he overcomes them were eye-opening, and I will always keep in mind the needs of the visually challenged. Austin's positivity is infectious, and I have no doubt that great things lie ahead for him. Beyond just completing a certificate program, I now see accessibility as a means of allowing everyone to live independently with dignity. I am grateful for the reminder that designing with accessibility in mind improves products and lives for everyone, and I promise to strive to be the best version of myself in digital design.
Even after 7 years this still looks relevant and fresh! High time to consider accessibility a lot while designing.
Love this guy. He might be blind but with all those ideas and knowledge about technology he got some great visions !
You know what, I realised despite not having any physical gestures, the amazing nuances his voice and tones brings across does more than anything to convey a descriptive and vivid speech. I LOVED THIS VIDEO. Thanks google design course for bringing me here too. I had so much fun listening to Mr Austin speak :)
So true
Came from the Google UX Design course. Learning about technology accessibility from a blind person's perspective is truly enlightening and eye-opening!
This is so inspiring, seeing Austin made me smile and cry. Thanks to Google UX for this big opportunity to have heared Austin speak.
Well done, Austin, You're so brave, smart, intelligent and funny.
Accessibility has come to stay in the field of UX design because of it positive impact.
I am an architect and in between transitioning my career to UX. The Google UX Design course is impressing me even more by giving me exposure to these amazing videos and content! I truly enjoyed the video! I have always been driven towards universal design and this video reminded me why that is. Hopeful and excited for my future self!
I'm proud to say Austin is a member of our ham radio club, and is an active radio amateur.
Landed here because of the Google UX Design course- And Philly was my old stomping grounds. We all have to leave the Shire eventually. We can all feel like we're home when functionality and accessibility is available to ALL! Thx Austin...Thx TED-
Google UX brought me here. This is so enlightening. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with such great humor!
Google UX Design brought me here and I'm so inspired! Thank you Austin for sharing your experience. This will truly stick with me.
what a story teller! im so glad that i watched these videos from the UX design program
I'm doing the Google UX Design Certificate and one of the lessons recommends this video. I started my path as Front End Developer but in the way I found the UI/UX Design and I feel like is my passion. Watching and hearing people like you, inspire me to become a good UX Design, who takes in consideration all the people. To make the technology more and more accessible everyday. Thanks for sharing your experience and being such a good example for all of us, especially us that want to make more good design and being empathic
JFDI is now my new motto for life challenges, Thanks to Austin.
Excellent. I also came here thanks to the Google UX Design Course. A really clear and punchy summary of accessibility and what it can and should be. I wonder how things have changed in the 9 years since this talk.
Amazing, guy right here. I am going to love being part of the reason why the next billion will have a better experience with technology, as we help drive awareness concerning incusivity for all people, all situations, all considerations and no holds barred.
google ux design course brought me here i never knew technologies like this exist ,i met austin today and i'm glad he's doing great and living life freely
I also came here from Google UX design. I thought Austin had such a charming and engaging way of discussing what accessibility means to everyone. Really enjoyed this and felt like I learned a lot! Informative for such a short watch.
Like others in the comment section, I was brought here by the Google UX Design course. Thank you, Austin, for sharing your story and your awesome humor. As a daughter of a mom that works with visually impaired children, I'm always inspired by what they are able to do (ex. run track, paint, and play the piano). I hope that I can help create products that are easily accessible to everyone in my community.
Love this dude. Such a positive, awesome and inspiring person. :)
Very inspirational. I have impaired vision and vision loss. I shouldn't complain and be positive and see the opportunities.
Awesome sense of humor!! I enjoyed this thoroughly and gained some broader insight. I am partially blind and studying UX design. Your talk deepened my interest in pursing this career and I resonated with everything. I may need to check out Philly as my next place of residence lol.
I found you through the UX Design Course, and I think that you are amazing. Thank you for sharing some of your struggles and how you get around them, you have opened my eyes and I will never forget to consider the needs of the visually challenged going forward. Most of all thank you for being such a positive person, you radiate positivity and I see amazing things for you. I’m so glad that I took the time to watch this.
Thank you UX Design for opening my view about realities I was not aware off. Thank you Austin for talking about your journey!!
Google UX course here too, was really taking things at words value, but after seeing this man, I actually can empathize and understand more about accessibility now! thanks Austin for opening my eyes.
Thankful to the Google Course UX Design to bring me here! Totally connected in terms of empathy and ideas
Shout out to Google UX Design course that introduced me to Austin. I am inspired and motivated to create inclusive mobile apps and websites. Thanks for sharing your ideas and experience, Austin. ❤
I think its crazy that he is a computer programmer, I am currently going to school to be a programmer. What I really want to do is make video games that you can play through your mind, which has to do with programming and nuero science. I think that it will also help the blind to be able to see using the same set up one day. That is my goal anyways :) Thank you for the video.
bob729mike Are you familiar with audio games? Because there is no visual stimuli, audio games are often available on phones. They're also available online. The games, "The Knightjar" and "Blindside," are very popular among visually impaired gamers. They are available on IOS devices.
How is your progress after 4 years? I want to be a programmer too, and at the same field as you:)
instablaster.
Google UX Design Course brought me here, and I am so incredibly grateful. Thank you for sharing your wonderfully inspiring story. This really humanizes the design process for me.
I'm also enrolled in a Google course that brought this video to my attention. What a great video. These issues are so important
Also a Google UX Design student! Haha, Austin, I am a Mac user too. I love watching people get excited about products and give them a try. I didn't know all that about the iPhone's apps for the blind--so cool to learn about companies that thought about accessibility so early on. Fascinating to learn about echolocation as well. So much goodness. The braille street art might be the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Just wow. I mean, JFDI! I have more investigating to do as it's 8 years after you gave this talk. Thank you for sharing so much (and with a sense of humor).
loved this Austin. thankyou for sharing :)
This is so Inspiring, Austin.
I'm glad Google UX course brought me here.
Keep the good work coming
Austin,
You are the whole package of Inspiration🖤🖤🖤
The Google UX Design brought me here. This is inspiring.
Thank you for your insight regardless of what your outsight is. Lots of food for thought here.
Google UX Design Course Brought me here and i'm so glad i got to experience this wonderful talk by such an amazing personality!!
I am studying throught Google UX Design and the course indicaded this TEDx. Austin, your life experience is a powerful inspiration to make us, designers, keeping listening people needs and improving the technology to make life not only easier, but as much enjoilable as can be. As a museum lover, this touch art experiences that you shared gave me good chills. Is something I never heard before here in Brazil, it would break the "non touch" patterns in museums and it would be such a big inclusive step. Thanks for share with us!
please can y tell me if the corse helps you to grow on ux and y get a job
@@its.Saaraah it helps a lot to grow and it's a actually fun course to take, a lot of hand on projects. I can't tell yet if it helps to grow on the career, because I already had a job in the field before start it.
Google UX Course brought me here . Great Speech, thank you for all the insights Austin.
I am here from the Google UX Design course as well. I appreciate seeing all these different aspects of accessibility.
Austin is so inspiring!
Love this!!!
I’m so thankful UX google course introduced me to the world of accessibility. My life will never be the same. These people must be heard, and always considered. I feel embarrassed that before I dedicated too little time thinking of how to make their lives easier and better.
Love this dude.
Great speech!
Google UX Design course bring me here and I am so glad to have now this good reference. Tks Google, Tks TEDx Talks and Thank you Austin Seraphin !!
Google UX design course. Brought me here,Austin you’re great guy.
He's absolutely charming !
I am amazed, and that's not easy to do
Motivational and inspiring. JFDI man.
wow am doing a thesis on the impact of adaptive technology for visually impaired citizen on improving their participation in ICT Based technology .
i really need to know more about adaptive technology.
Que vídeo maravilhoso, Google ux Design me trouxe aqui e estou me divertindo com essa palestra, Austin é uma pessoa muito bem humorado, abraço do Brazil.
Amazing!
Google UX Design course bring me here too. Thankyou Austin, very inspiring and motivational speech.
Google UX Design course brought me...I must say this account really helps contextualise the for need for accessibility
Google UX design course brought me here. I'm inspired by your story Austin!
Just found out about this guy bcz of the DOS text base game he created called "Barney Splat"... I find it crazy and impressed how he's a programmer
How charismatic is he, omg. I feel like her bestie already.
Love you sir❤
Austin you are amazing 🎉
God bless you Austin.
this guy is so likable. :-)
Google UX Design program brought me here and happy I did.
Great video! He is a very charismatic speaker.
By the way, I am also a UX Student from Google program. If anyone is doing the course now and wants to connect, I am here.
This was so interesting and entertaining. If he had a channel i'd subscribe.
Very interesting.
Thank you, Google UX Course for bring my attention to this.
Thanks to the Google UX Design Course for bringing me here
Always design with equity and empathy
This guy is a legend. JFDI!!
Please include blind, deaf and physically disabled actors in films and TV.
Google UX Design (Coursera) directed me here and I am so glad it did. This course is really enlightening and increasing my knowledge beyond UX Design. Inclusivity for ALL is all I think of now when relating to UX and not just in UX designs, for everything. It is changing me for the better, I am so grateful for that!
Nice impactful and comical presentation from the speaker, Austin.
A video like this gives you hope in life - Thanks Google
I enjoy watching videos like this cause i have always wondered how people with disabilities functions in their daily lifes
Thanks, Google to bring me here
is it possible to create captions for this?
click the cc button on the bottom of the video screen.
Google UX Design course brought me here! :)
I love this lol
All thanks to Google UX course for bringing me here
Google UX Design program brought me here
Google UX Design course bringing me here too
Thanks to Google UX design course for letting me see this.
Thank you Google for bringing me here!
👍
he is hilarious
use lyft, they have been very useful to me and the instant messaging is still avaible
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This video has not had a comment for the past month so I though I might just say hi
This chick at an airport showed me this video back in 2017, where ever you are I wish I got ur number :(
Dang what a babe!
His voice is annoying.
So is your comment.
Wow it was rather captivating for me! how is yours by the way?
This is awesome! I got here via the Google UX Design course.
Thank you so much, Austin. This is so inspirational. I came here through my Google UX Design Certificate course recommendation.
Me too!!
Have you finished the course? Have you found a ux Job yet?
Humble to Google UX Design course let me know a lot of things in amazing way to learn and understand and humble to life knowing the stories I really motivated and inspired.