Client Engagement Report (Group)

Last revised date: 9/17/2026

Overview

Report on your client meeting using the AEIOU framework and reflect on design/disability justice principles

Required Competencies

When you turn in this homework, also turn in these competencies

• Design/Disability Justice

Assignment Details

• Assessments
• Submission Instructions
• Client Recruitment
• Client Meeting
  • Informed consent
  • Conversation
  • Analysis

Assessments

Note: This is a means to support in-class critique and discussion. You will report on this in more depth to your mentors as part of your design proposal the following week. Because this is a formative stage of your design proposal, we are primarily focusing on participation here (we will also assess accessible communication on your consent form).

• Participation, Effort and Teamwork
• Design/Disability Justice

Submission Instructions

• Your findings on a poster in landscape format. We will share it during class for critique.
• Your contribution statement (same as Client Engagement Spec). Please note that we will not grade submissions where this statement is missing.

Client Recruitment

Most projects will have identified clients that you can meet with. However, clients are busy people and you must contact them early and be flexible in scheduling time with them. If you are having trouble reaching a client, or don’t have a contact, reach out to us on Ed for support in deciding how and whom to recruit.

Client Meeting

Your client meeting should start with informed consent, then an interview. Your analysis should apply the AEIOU framework.

Informed consent

Discuss informed consent with them and go over your consent form

Conversation

Use the questions you developed for the spec.

Analysis

• Based on your client engagement, reflect on the questions provided in the Design/Disability Justice rubric.
• How did your client engagement change your perspective on these principals since you wrote your slides for the Client Engagement Spec?

• In addition, work as a group to identify design challenges and opportunities that you might be able to build on for the rest of the quarter.

• AEIOU Analysis

Design/Disability Justice (rubric)

• Define and explain two disability justice principles. For each, explain how the subject fails or succeeds to meet that?
• Address the three additional points
• Analysis of potential harms and mitigation strategies
• [TODO: make more concrete or delete] Evidence of engagement with clients' whole selves intersectionally