Great Lakes ADA Center

December 18, 2015 udcom

Serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin | A program of the Department of Disability and Human Development under the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Universal Design (UD) is an approach to design that increases the potential for developing a better quality of life for a wide range of individuals. It is a design process that enables and empowers a diverse population by improving human performance, health and wellness, and social participation (Steinfeld and Maisel, 2012). It creates products, systems, and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability or situation.