The experiences of our staff offer unique insights into the design of infrastructure, facilities and mainstream products and services.
Our inclusive design service offers greater insights for designers creating infrastructure, facilities, products, services and customer experiences. It also improves usability and accessibility and helps avoid costly design errors.
Inclusive design should be used at the beginning of the design process because the cost to implement inclusive design increases the later it is introduced. Design that is not inclusive can lead to complaints, legal challenges, planning delays and costly retrofits as a product or service matures. Poor design can also negatively impact brand reputation. The relative cost of retrofitting a product or service to become inclusive will increase significantly over time and can reach up to 10,000 times the cost of introducing inclusive design earlier on.
*Centre for Inclusive Design; The Benefit of Designing for everyone. PwC Australia
Access to true user experience will better inform your design, and enable you to question, test and rapid prototype your designs.
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Provides clients with candid insights and observations to ensure equity and increase innovation.
Inventive and design-led thinking
Cost effective concept prototype testing.
Quality assurance is one of our highest priorities!
We are a certified ‘Social Trader’.
We are a registered NDIS provider.
“Bringing in Ability Works employees to the design development proved invaluable to the project. Their unique skillset and fresh perspective resulted in clear requirements for accessible transport design by hearing from those who experience the challenges of existing non-accessible designs day in day out. This input will not just be of benefit to people with accessibility needs, but to all transport users in the City of Melbourne”
Andrew Kendall, User Centred Design Leader at Aurecon
Ability Works consulted on facilities design preceding the development of major public infrastructure work.
High volume metal fabrications manufactured to customer specifications as well as bespoke MIG welding to suit project requirements.
We provide tailored mail room and secure record digitisation services to support data integrity storage and physical space saving.
Our bespoke packing and rework services provide many employment opportunities and our efficient process lines ensure both quick turn-around and quality output.
As a successful social enterprise, Ability Works’ delivers a wide range of services, from supporting people with significant barriers to employment, to tailoring solutions for customers in diverse industries. The following questions help explain what we do and achieve for our customers and our staff.
