Inclusive design strategy
Helping teams turn accessibility, participation, and lived expertise into clearer product and organizational decisions.
Discuss this serviceInclusive design strategist · Accessibility researcher · Responsible AI advisor
Turning complexity into
inclusive, responsible action.
I’m Abigale Stangl. I help organizations translate complex questions about accessibility, responsible AI, and participation into strategy, research, and practical action.
Consulting services
From difficult questions to decisions teams can use.
Engagements are shaped around the organization—from focused advising and workshops to research partnerships and longer strategic work.
Accessibility research & evaluation
Designing research, evaluation, and participatory processes that reveal what people need and where systems fall short.
Discuss this serviceResponsible AI & organizational guidance
Guiding teams toward trustworthy AI practices, accessible products, and responsible systems that preserve human agency.
Discuss this serviceWays to work together
Two distinct practices, clearly connected.
Saga.Industries is my independent consulting practice. MultiSense.Studio is the home for academic research, teaching, and collaboration at Georgia Tech.
Saga.Industries
For organizations working to nurture human creativity and agency through accessible, context-aware, and trustworthy digital and physical systems, products, and environments.
Explore consulting through SagaMultiSense.Studio
For research partnerships, accessible and tactile media, multimodal learning, grants, teaching, and student-centered collaboration.
Explore academic collaborationA way of working
Begin with access. Stay with complexity.
The most generative questions rarely belong to one discipline. I bring research, design, teaching, and community knowledge into conversation—then make the ideas tangible enough to test together.
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Access is a creative practice, not a compliance afterthought.
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Lived experience is expertise.
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Technology should expand agency, not prescribe it.
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The process of making matters as much as the outcome.
About Abigale
Curious about what becomes possible when access leads.
Dr. Abigale Stangl is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech and a researcher, designer, educator, and builder of inclusive systems. Her practice centers disabled expertise and explores how tactile and multimodal media, learning, and emerging technologies can support meaningful participation.
Across research and teaching, she makes room for rigorous questions, collective experimentation, and forms of knowledge too often left outside the frame.
Evidence and scholarship
Research grounded in access, shaped with community.
Abigale’s publications span accessible AI, tactile media, image description, privacy, and design with blind and low-vision communities.
Selected publications refresh daily from ORCID-linked scholarly records.
View full Google Scholar profileBIV-Priv-Seg: Locating Private Content in Images Taken by People With Visual Impairments
Privacy-aware AI
“Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked?” What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions
Image accessibility
Defining Problems of Practices to Advance Inclusive Tactile Media Consumption and Production
Tactile media
Transcribing Across the Senses: Community Efforts to Create 3D Printable Accessible Tactile Pictures for Young Children with Visual Impairments
Emergent literacy
Updates
Recent work, ideas, and activity.
Selected places to see what I’m developing, publishing, and sharing now.
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