The Access GridPage 7 of 7: About & Contact
Hi, I'm John Lorow
A Nairobi-based product designer who builds what he designs, with a focus on people that technology usually leaves out.
Why me
I have over four years' experience as a product designer who also builds and ships, so I can deliver the booking tool, the access guide and the braille menus myself.
- Kenya EmergencyAccess: a USSD emergency-services platform that works on any phone, without a smartphone or data
- Carbon-offset onboarding: separate flows for rural, low-bandwidth project owners and urban buyers, based on research with both groups
- ERP design system: used across more than five institutions
- Menu-to-braille tool: in development, using open-source braille translation libraries
How I'll work
I don't run nightlife venues, so this project is built around the people who do, and around Deaf and disabled experts who lead the audits and shape the guide.
My role is the technology, the project management and the documentation. Everyone who contributes is paid for their time.
Or follow me on X: @lorow_john
Get in touch
Venues, artists, interpreters, disability-led organisations and press: I'd love to hear from you.
Prefer another way to reach us? Tell us in your message and we'll use it: KSL video, WhatsApp, a call or text.
Photo credits
Photos on this site are stock images used under the Unsplash Licence, for illustration only. They don't show project participants or partner venues. We'll replace them with our own consented photos as the pilot begins.
- Silhouetted crowd facing a stage washed in coloured lights: photo by Adedotun Adegborioye on Unsplash
- Nairobi's skyline lit up at night, reflected in water: photo by Mustafa Omar on Unsplash
- Nairobi towers at golden hour: photo by Shalom Mwenesi on Unsplash
- Dancers in a club lit in blue: photo by Max Titov on Unsplash
- A crowd with hands raised in the air: photo by Julia Taubitz on Unsplash
- Two hands reaching towards each other: photo by Fethi Benattallah on Unsplash
- A woman moving in a wheelchair beside trees: photo by Zachary Kyra-Derksen on Unsplash
- A woman sitting in a wheelchair: photo by Steven HWG on Unsplash
- Hands typing on a braille writer: photo by Compagnons on Unsplash
- A hearing-augmented area sign with an accessibility symbol: photo by Annie Hatuanh on Unsplash
- A crowd under bright stage lights as purple confetti falls: photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash
- A band performing on stage in front of an audience: photo by Vishnu R Nair on Unsplash
- A group of people in front of a lit stage: photo by Aditya Chinchure on Unsplash
- An accessible-entrance wheelchair symbol on a sign: photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash