DESIGNING WITH EMAN
How Motherhood Shaped My Mission for Inclusion and Innovation
Part memoir, part manifesto – a story of how raising a daughter with Down syndrome transformed one designer’s entire approach to empathy, UX, and purpose.
10 Chapters
+ reflection exercises
145 Pages
memoirs + practical tools
3 Formats
ebook | print | bundle
1 Story
that changes how you design
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The moment a doctor’s three words changed everything — and quietly began redesigning who I was.
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Grief has a way of finding you at the keyboard. This is how creating became the way I came back to myself.
Ch. 3 — The invisible barriers we don't see
The world isn’t designed to exclude. It just never bothered to include. Here’s what that looks like up close.
Ch. 4 — Designing with empathy, not ego
The hardest design critique I ever received wasn’t from a client. It came from watching my daughter navigate a world built without her in mind.
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We’ve been calling it a values conversation. It was always a systems problem — and systems can be redesigned.
Ch. 6-10 — +5 More Chapters and Toolkit
Digital tools inherit old biases. Designing for “most users” quietly excludes others. The goal: design the world a daughter deserves.
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About the Author
Rafia Munir
Designer | Founder | Advocate | CEO, XPEDigital
Rafia is the founder of EmanCards and XPEDigital, and Director of Marketing at DSDN. Her work sits at the intersection of inclusive design, empathy, and purpose-driven entrepreneurship.
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