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Seeing Red – or is it Green?
Not everyone experiences colour in the same way, yet the use of colour in illustrations is rarely questioned in terms of universal design. If people with Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) are not included...
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Kitchens for all time
A well designed kitchen is essential for all members of the household. Participating in food preparation is important part of everyday life in many cultures. So anyone who wants to join in with meal...
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Get me out of here!
Emergency evacuations are tricky at the best of times, but when you find steps and stairs difficult or just impossible, what do you do? According to Lee Wilson in Sourceable magazine, Australian...
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Kitchens and older people
More than any room in the house, the kitchen needs to be a place where tasks can be done easily and efficiently. Kitchens are also an important area for social interactions during meal preparation and...
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Integrating art, healing and wayfinding
Healthcare environments are under the design microscope now that there is a growing body of evidence to show how design is linked to well-being. The SEGD website has three interesting examples showing...
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Universal design for apparel products
How can clothing design be inclusive and allow individual expression at the same time? Design for many, design for me: Universal design for apparel products reports on a study examining just that...
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Advances in design for inclusion – book
This book is practice-orientated and covers many fields of design.The overview of this publication states, “This book focuses on a range of topics in design, such as universal design, design for all,...
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Look here: Kitchen lighting refocused
Doug Walter writes in ProRemodeller magazine about new research in kitchen lighting. He says, “Most kitchens are woefully underlit. Lighting is often an afterthought, yet even when it’s carefully...
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Nutrition and UD
As we know, the principles of universal design can be applied to anything that is designed, both tangible (eg products) and intangible (eg policies). The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour...
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Smart and functional bathroom fittings
The Hewi home bathroom catalogue is extensive and shows the latest European designs for fixtures and fittings. It includes some classy designs that would be suitable for a wide range of users. Some of...
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Colour Kindness
It’s one thing to talk about colour blindness, but it is quite another to see what it looks like to the 6-10 percent of the population that have colour vision deficiency. Axess Lab has produced an...
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Product Design: Inclusive Design Toolkit
The Inclusive Design Toolkit is a great resource for product designers. This page link takes you to the section on user capabilities that need to be considered when designing products. It shows how...
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Do we need another form of Braille?
People who are born blind are introduced to Braille from an early age. But what if you become blind at a later age? Is Braille the most suitable system for accessing text, and even if it is, how easy...
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When the shop is a screen
Selling online is not just a simple matter of taking a photo of the product and writing a description with the price. The screen is the shop shelf – it’s a digital shelf. Too often pack shots fail to...
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Clothes that speak – literally
We live in a visual world where we make judgments about people and things according to what they look like. So that’s why fashion, or at least looking good, is important to most people. But how do...
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Inclusive Design Toolkit turns 10
The Inclusive Design Toolkit has proved to be an invaluable tool for designers and it’s received a revamp for its tenth birthday. Also updated is the exclusion calculator which gives a great guide to...
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Glasses give live captioning
Captioning of videos and TV is now being recognised as a mainstream convenience for any viewer. Captioning in theatres is an improvement for people who are deaf, but the way they are delivered can be a...
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Smart phones and shopping
Smartphones are now the device of choice. Survey question: would you rather give up your smartphone or sex for a year? The answer could surprise you. The video below shows how to present products for...
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Tactile models popular with everyone
Tactile models of buildings and spaces are made with blind people in mind to help them orientate in unfamiliar surroundings. Many are found in tourist destinations where they can also provide...
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Design principles to live and die by
The Fastcodesign website has another interesting article about design. Every designer has the principles they work by. So they asked eight prominent designers who were either judges of or honored in...
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