Flourishing

An orientation in design and HCI that measures success not by task completion or outcome equivalence but by the extent to which a system supports individuals' subjective well-being, personal significance, agency, and ongoing development. The concept draws on positive psychology, Aristotelian eudaimonia, and Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach. In accessibility, a flourishing frame argues that assistive technologies should not merely give disabled users efficient access to activities designed around non-disabled norms but should expand their capabilities to engage, create, and make meaning on their own terms - treating disabled users as domain experts whose perceptual, cognitive, and embodied strategies are generative rather than deficient. Often used in contrast to 'damage-centered' or pure-access design.