Inclusive design: products for all consumers

摘要

Inclusive design meets the needs of people of all abilities. It extends and preserves independence but it need not be expensive. For products to be inclusively designed, all stakeholders need to be informed and active: demanding consumers, influential consumer organisations, creative designers and design colleges, even reluctant manufacturers, legislators and standards-makers. It is time to meet the challenge of our changing demography and the resulting diversity of consumer characteristics.