Apply- Mag: One Tool to Support Many Inclusive Design Methods
Doing inclusive design in HCI practice can be labor-intensive, a costly barrier that some companies and HCI practitioners may be unwilling or unable to overcome. Yet, not doing inclusive design is costly too, in the form of UX barriers that disproportionately disadvantage under-served user populations. To address this problem, we introduce Apply- Mag, an LLM-powered tool to support HCI practitioners' work to design their products inclusively to wide ranges of users. Apply- Mag is general, supporting any inclusive design method that can be expressed as Mags (i.e., using attribute ranges and heuristics). It is also effective: Empirical results with researcher and practitioner teams using various combinations of two Mags on 7 products showed Apply- Mag precision averaging 90-99% and recall averaging 82-89%. Further, its environmental costs were reasonable, costing about the same resources as 2-4 ordinary Google searches.