Universal design aims to make products and environments accessible to all people, regardless of age, ability, or situation. It considers the needs of people with disabilities and those from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. An example of universal design is a telescope at a tourist site that is accessible from a wheelchair at eye level for both seated and standing users. Universal design principles can be seen in everyday features that support access and usability for all members of society, including those who use wheelchairs.

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2. DESIGN &UNIVERSAL
DESIGN
O “Designing any product or environment involves the
consideration of many factors, including aesthetics,
engineering options, environmental issues, safety
concerns, industry standards, and cost.” (From
University of Washington) And it usually base on
most of users who have same conditions.
O Universal Design is base on different kinds of people
like disabled people and people are non-English
speakers, etc. Those people who have different
background or cultural and they can use these
public designs as well.

3. Compare
O From this picture, we
can easily to find the
universal design. On
some travel places, the
designers design the
telescope for most of
people and they also
designed it for some
people use wheel chair
since their eyesight will
lower than most of
people.

4. O Here I will show some
pictures that we can
see the universal in
the daily life. And as
we can see. The
people use wheel
chair take up the most
in the society.

5. Reference
O Those pictures are all collected from
Google website.
O http://www.washington.edu/doit/CUDE/inst
_sec.html
O http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures
/Programs/ud.html