One of the things that I really thouight about during the lecture were how to make tools that everyone can use, not just impaired people. The remote control is one of the best examples on that. It is something that was, if I understood it right, originally developed for people who couldn’t get to the tv easily, but it became something that everyone uses. I would never buy a tv without it today.
Or the things that were just designed to be a good thing, but turned out to be even better for people with impairments, like the thermos mug.
I think that the important reason for designing for everybody is that it lowers stimatization, which will make the product much more desired do use. If we as designers would want to get customers, we have to make a product that is desirable.
Of course some tools are very hard to design for everybody, like wheelchairs. But you can design it som it looks good. Another of thing I thought about were the person wearing the supporting weakness tool at the gym. That tool is designed to look very similar to a lot of support that “normal” people wear at gyms, so it wouldn’t stick out, and other people wouldn’t probable even notice it. That is good design.
Non-excluding Design 