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9780471287261 English 0471287261 "Our individual disability becomes a handicap only when we encounter a barrier." ? George Covington, Co-author "Why not consider designing for your lifetime, not just your primetime?" ? Jane Langmiur, Architect "Universal design is good design because it is design for the user and not design for the designer." ? Marc Harrison, IDSA, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design "The issue is not so much, ?what a great idea!,? as how did we get it wrong for so long?" ? Geoff Hollington, Universal Designer, Geoff Hollington Associates "It's a way of thinking; a new ingredient to design education and professional practice that can become a catalyst for invigorating our design sensibilities." ? Bill Palmer, Architect, Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum, Inc. "A designed object, product, building, or landscape earns the term Universal Design only if, in its final built state, it works properly in one form for everyone." ? Kevin Owens, Director of Product Development for Play/Designs & Playworld Systems, Provides a comprehensive review of products that are designed for universal access by a full spectrum of the public. To illustrate the principle that responsible design makes universal access an imperative, this book contains many product profiles and photographs, encouraging design standards that make places and things accessible and user friendly to everyone from children to seniors to the disabled.
9780471287261 English 0471287261 "Our individual disability becomes a handicap only when we encounter a barrier." ? George Covington, Co-author "Why not consider designing for your lifetime, not just your primetime?" ? Jane Langmiur, Architect "Universal design is good design because it is design for the user and not design for the designer." ? Marc Harrison, IDSA, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design "The issue is not so much, ?what a great idea!,? as how did we get it wrong for so long?" ? Geoff Hollington, Universal Designer, Geoff Hollington Associates "It's a way of thinking; a new ingredient to design education and professional practice that can become a catalyst for invigorating our design sensibilities." ? Bill Palmer, Architect, Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum, Inc. "A designed object, product, building, or landscape earns the term Universal Design only if, in its final built state, it works properly in one form for everyone." ? Kevin Owens, Director of Product Development for Play/Designs & Playworld Systems, Provides a comprehensive review of products that are designed for universal access by a full spectrum of the public. To illustrate the principle that responsible design makes universal access an imperative, this book contains many product profiles and photographs, encouraging design standards that make places and things accessible and user friendly to everyone from children to seniors to the disabled.