Acuity Design works to enable clarity. We help make peoples’ experiences of products, places and services clearer so they achieve their purpose.
We work closely with both public and private sector clients and their service users to co-create designs that work inclusively.
Alastair Somerville is the founder of Acuity Design. He is a specialist in accessible design, wayfinding, information perception, workshop design and facilitation.
What are you wanting to do?
A lot of our clients do not quite know quite what they want to do, what is possible and what things cost.
Making things clear is hard.
It is a space between what you are tying to say and what people are capable of perceiving and understanding.
The best thing I can offer is to listen to you and what you think your problem is.
Hear yourself and let me reflect back what might help.
Let us just have a chat
We are happy to offer free advice to explore needs and show what is possible with different types of technologies and methodologies.
Book a free 30 minute Zoom meeting on Calendly
Schedule time with meWork and Workshops
We have also discovered that workshops are a useful way of both exploring what is needed and developing deeper capacities in organisations. Both co-production and skills workshops can help any organisation build the right product or service for all kinds of people.
We also offer workshop design and facilitation skills coaching for individuals and teams. Gaining skills in communicating ideas about accessibility and human-centered design to more people in more place is important too.
This website has four main areas:
- Accessible Design on projects to design and build physical and digital assets for accessibility. We have particular strengths in design for cultural and public transport organisations.
- Workshops on how Alastair Somerville facilitates a range of workshops (in-person and online) for organisations.
- Workshop design and facilitation skills coaching to gain clarity and confidence in communicating ideas and intents within organisations and to external stakeholders.
- Blog on new ideas on accessible design and a wider range of subjects relevant to accessibility.
Accessible Design
Accessible design can seem daunting and complex with lots of conflicting demands.
We are here to help.
Contact us anytime for a quick chat about what you think you need
and let us advise you what is possible and what could be done that you had not even imagined. We have helped cultural organisations across the world develop new ways of communicating with new audiences.
Have a look at the Accessible Design page.
Workshops
Workshops have become a key part of Acuity Design’s work. Starting with Sensory Design and Accessible Design workshops for companies like Google and conferences like South By SouthWest, Alastair Somerville now faciltiates workshops on a range of exciting topics.
Have a look at the Workshops page.
Blog
We have a blog for ideas on accessible design, new research on perception and ideas around the workshops that have been delivered or are currently being designed.
Have a look at the Blog page.
Contact us
email : a.somerville@acuity.design
phone : +44 (0)7808 480749
twitter : @acuity_design