Merchandising Adaptive Fashion - The Shopping Experience

What you'll learn
Students will be introduced to adaptive fashion merchandising.
Students will gain an understanding of how to improve the in-person shopping experience for consumers with disabilities.
Students will gain an understanding of how to improve the online shopping experience for consumers with disabilities.
Students will analyze real-life examples of in-person and online shopping challenges and successes.
Requirements
Please take Introduction to Adaptive Fashion, History of Adaptive Fashion, Importance of Disability Inclusion in Fashion, Adaptive Fashion Customer Deep Dive, and Adaptive Fashion Market Overview prior to taking this course.
Adaptive design and universal design understanding may benefit learners in this course. To gain this understanding, please consider taking Developing Adaptive Fashion 1 - Adaptive Design, Developing Adaptive Fashion 2 - Universal Design, and Developing Adaptive Fashion 3 - Fit and Functionality.
Description
This course, Merchandising Adaptive Fashion, takes a deep dive into the shopping experience of people with disabilities. By understanding the shopping experience, we can properly merchandise adaptive fashion to enable Disabled consumers to shop the thoughtfully developed adaptive fashion. While this course is geared towards merchandisers, buyers, and e-commerce specialists, learning what goes into merchandising adaptive fashion will also benefit designers, technical designers, production managers, marketing teams, company executives, and more. The prerequisites for this course are:Course 1: Introduction to Adaptive Fashion Course 2: History of Adaptive Fashion Course 3: Importance of Disability Inclusion in Fashion Course 4: Adaptive Fashion Customer Deep Dive Course 5: Adaptive Fashion Market OverviewIn addition, students are encouraged to take Course 6: Developing Adaptive Fashion 1 - Adaptive Design, Course 7: Developing Adaptive Fashion 2 - Universal Design, and Course 8: Developing Adaptive Fashion 3 - Fit & Functionality in order to understand what goes into the adaptive fashion that is being merchandised. Lecture 1 provides a brief instructor and course introduciton. Lecture 2 provides a merchandising overview, covering the goals of merchandising adaptive fashion and the importance of merchandising by looking at statistics around the shopping experience of people with disabilities. In lectures 3 and 4, you will learn the challenges of in-person and online shopping and how brands can improve the shopping experience to be more inclusive for all. In lecture 5, we will apply what we have learned to evaluate an in-person shopping experience and an online shopping experience. Wrapping up this course, Jessica Hayon, a fabric specialist, shares her experience as a Disabled shopper in lecture 6.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: Merchandising Overview
Lecture 2 Merchandising Overview
Section 3: In-Person Shopping
Lecture 3 In-Person Shopping
Section 4: Online Shopping
Lecture 4 Online Shopping
Section 5: Shopping Examples
Lecture 5 Shopping Examples
Section 6: Fashion Professional Jessica Hayon Shares Her Experience
Lecture 6 Fashion Professional Jessica Hayon Shares Her Experience
Fashion merchandisers who want to learn about merchandising adaptive fashion.,Fashion students interested in adaptive fashion.,Fashion designers, buyers, production managers, product developers, e-Commerce specialists, and marketers who want to expand their knowledge of all facets of the adaptive fashion industry.,Fashion executives who want to expand the reach of their brands.

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