“The workshop wants the message to be one of accessibility in the broadest sense: a reminder that the built environment and all its structures are the products of human decisions.”
(What Can a Body Do?, p 71)
Alex Truesdell, founder:
“Build for one and change everything.” (quoted p. 73)
Phrase coined by Ronald Mace, 1985.
“Universal design is design that’s usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.”
(Mace, quoted in What is Universal Design?)
From the perspective of the designer, the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (5th ed.) notes:
“A general characteristic of good universal design is that it benefits many more people without disabilities than those with disabilities. This, of course, follows from the design benefiting everyone and the fact that there are more people without disabilities than with disabilities.”
(p. 1219)
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics by 
Designed by designed by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick of HermanMiller; still in production.
Link and image source: Aeron Chair Design Story (HermanMiller)
Designed by Sam Farber; still in production.
“It’s hard to think of a vegetable peeler as radical,” Mr. Farber told The Los Angeles Times in 2000. “But I guess it was.”
(Quoted in Sam Farber, Creator of Oxo Utensils, Dies at 88 (M. Fox, NY Times, 2013)
Link and image source: Behind the Design: OXO's Iconic Good Grips Handles (V. Liston, 2017)
Designed by Fiskars, a Finnish company dating back to the 17th century; still in production.
Link and image source: Fiskars: Our Heritage
Designed by Marc Harrison.
Image: Cuisinart Food Processor exploded technical drawing, 1984(?); Hagley Digital Archives
Link: Marc Harrison - Human Factors (Hagley Museum)
