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Body Fit, Comfort, Products

Scottish Wheelchair Inventor Secures Key Funding

January 17, 2019 udcom

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A Scottish inventor has secured almost £400,000 in funding for his design for a wheelchair.

The Untold Story of The Vegetable Peeler That Changed The World

October 4, 2018 udcom

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Smart Design’s Davin Stowell shares the origin story of the OXO Swivel, one of the great icons of 20th-century industrial design.

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.