Shell Little

For a Neurotypical person, an attention-grabbing, movement driven feature can be a friendly nudge alerting to a new enhancement or a welcomed hint that a chat is available if they have questions. Unfortunately for someone with attention-related disabilities, or Neurodivergent, that distraction can and often is the end of the road for a task. With the popularity of micro-interactions on the rise as mobile technology continues to grow, the barriers they create for people with attention-related and other cognitive disabilities rise along with it. In this talk Shell Little will discuss the difficult place we are at with these standard-less patterns that help some and block others using a variety of examples including in-the-wild patterns with a focus on mobile-based micro-interactions, all to answer the question ‘what is micro enough?’.