Understanding and interpreting data, say, from population studies, is not easy and makes it inaccessible to designers. Some useful ways of modelling data have been developed to help visualise and quantify how design features impact on users.
Integrating user research into R&D
A design & research process model showing how usability research relates to marketing activities
Showing how design can exclude people
Chapter 26 Inclusive design: design for the whole population, modelling design exclusion strategy
The Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, UK
The EDC carries out research on the practice of inclusive design and encouraging and supporting its uptake into industry
Authoritative account of human ageing
Proposes that lifestyle factors can impact significantly on the ageing process
How many are excluded by poor design
A basis for quantifying the number of people who can be excluded from using a product
Leading edge book on inclusive design
Inclusive design: design for the whole population, edited highly illustrated 625 page book