Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A Pro Designer Discusses The 7 Principles of Universal Design & Barrier Free and Assistive Technology | How To Grow, Profit & Organize Your Business

Q: Why is Universal Design necessary?

Product Design is at the intersection of technology, design, and human factors. When all these areas coalesce we can innovate and create usable products to improve the lives of users.

Generally designers consider users, but it is a natural tendency to think of people like oneself, which usually means healthy, young and typically developing. The human population is not typical, however.

"The human population is not typical, however."

That is revolutionary.

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