Merchandising Adaptive Fashion - The Shopping Experience

About this course

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.

Course objectives

• to educate on the importance of merchandising adaptive fashion
• to improve the shopping experience for disabled consumers
• to apply learned concepts in real-world scenarios