Disability Drives Innovation

An excellent TEDx presentation about Universal Design by Michael Nesmith from the IAAP CPACC Prep course.

“When you achieve universal design, it snowballs to the point where people, even if you don’t share the same disability, everyone benefits from it. Disability drives innovation. The existence of disability forces you to come up with new solutions. It does not impair you. All of us have a disability…what is your solution? Share it with us. It’s what unifies us as humans.”

Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. - Ron Mace