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Alex Haagaard

The Systems Thinking of Patient Work

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening in urgent care because I’d been dealing with intractable craniofacial pain that had gotten so bad…

9 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Glitch self-portrait of Alex

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Alex Haagaard

Making Your Surveys More Readable

This is the third part of a series on cognitively accessible survey design.

4 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Making Your Surveys More Readable

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Alex Haagaard

9 Tips to Help Survey Respondents Understand What You’re Asking (and Feel Understood by You)

This is part two of a series on cognitively accessible survey design.

4 min readJan 23, 2023

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9 Tips to Help Survey Respondents Understand What You’re Asking (and Feel Understood by You)

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Alex Haagaard

5 Ways to Ensure Optimized Survey Responses

This is part one of a series on cognitively accessible survey design.

4 min readJan 18, 2023

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5 Ways to Ensure Optimized Survey Responses

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Disability-Engaged Research: Capturing Invisibilized Access Needs

How do we measure disability?

7 min readJan 11, 2023

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Disability-Engaged Research: Capturing Invisibilized Access Needs

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Alex Haagaard

10 Ways Designers and Researchers Can Meaningfully Engage With Disabled People in 2023

It’s often a lot easier to explain what not to do when it comes to disability engagement in research and design, than to tell people what…

13 min readDec 28, 2022

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10 Ways Designers and Researchers Can Meaningfully Engage With Disabled People in 2023

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The Against List

A little over three years ago, we published The With List, a self-reflection exercise for designers beginning to engage with disability.

4 min readFeb 28, 2022

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A softcover copy of the book The Design of Everyday Things, which has been altered with retro stick-on embossed letter strips, so the title now says, “Literatory Design Practices: Designing Against” and the authors now appear to be “Liz Jackson and Alex Haagaard”

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Self(ie) Isolation

I have so many goddamn pieces of almost-published writing gathering digital dust in my Google Drive because I had a flare during the…

7 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Black-and-white selfie of Alex lying on an exam table, a pair of gauze pads on their forehead with a small dot of blood at the centre of each. Behind Alex’s head, the metal arm of some kind of medical imaging tool arcs upward, toward a pair of bulky cathode ray tube monitors which are giving off that weird, distinctly clinical vibe of outdated futurism.

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Alex Haagaard

Notes on Temporal Inaccessibility

When we think about accessibility, we tend to do so in terms of spaces. The first, and sometimes the only, question we ask is: can people…

7 min readMar 12, 2021

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Glitched photograph of white nonbinary person whose head, shoulders and right arm are viewed from multiple perspectives. Rectangular patches are rendered in vivid and distorted colours, covered by horizontal lines, repeated, rotated and displaced. Horizontal bands of multi-coloured noise appear near the bottom and top of the image.

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2 years of biohacking

CW: weight loss mention, weight number, exercise, medical neglect

8 min readMay 5, 2020

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2 years of biohacking

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Alex Haagaard

Alex Haagaard

Disability-led design & health justice. Director of Communications for The Disabled List. They / theirs. Tip jar: paypal.me/alexhaagaard

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