Tag Archives: design

Products, User Experiences

A Seven-Foot-Tall Designer Re-imagines Public Space

November 4, 2016 udcom

Wouter Corvers envisions street infrastructure created for people of all shapes and sizes.

Housing

Student-designers make spaces, products more accessible

January 26, 2016 udcom

From a wheelchair-friendly home bathroom to computer equipment that’s easier on arthritic hands, student innovators from across California designed products and spaces to better serve individuals of all abilities for the USC Davis School of Gerontology’s Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition.

Transportation

Year in Review: The Coming Age of Automobility and What it Means for Designers

January 6, 2016 udcom

Designers capable of considering systems as a whole and applying design thinking through considering human needs, balancing the benefits of breakthrough technologies and identifying new business paradigms will be essential in realizing the full promise of this new age of automobility.

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.