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Aiga: Design Observer
A designer's portal featuring writings, news, and critical essays on graphic design, social innovation, urbanism, popular culture, and criticism.
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Open University: Design
This interactive unit looks at the process of design. By the end of the lesson you will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation.
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Trinity Valley Community College: Introd. To Accessibility: Universal Design
The goal of Universal Design is to create spaces and products that are as usable as possible to the greatest number of people despite their differences. This page is a course introduction and provides a brief description of universal...
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Usc Leonard Davis: Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition
The annual Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition, a program of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, encourages student designers from across the U.S. to design products and spaces for people of all ages and abilities using...
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Interaction Design Foundation: The Seven Principles of Universal Design
It can be easy to forget that users don't come in a standard format when designing products. We're getting better at catering for different personas or demographics but industry still lags a long way behind design that is accessible to...
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Nc State University: The Principles of Universal Design [Pdf]
This poster explains the seven principles of universal design. Each principle is accompanied by a photograph showing how it could be applied in real-life product design.
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Open University: Design in a Nutshell
Learn about the history of design, particularly the gothic revival, then take an interactive quiz to decide your design "alter ego," where you will choose between gothic, Bauhaus, modern and postmodern schools of design. [1:49]
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Open University: Design a New School
You've got a brief to design a new school - and everyone's got an opinion on what they want for the money. Could you balance the demands from a range of interested parties, deliver a design to a high standard and still keep within...