Universal Design Links

Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA)

• The IDeA Center is dedicated to making environments and products more usable, safer and healthier in response to the needs of an increasingly diverse population.  The IDeA Center’s activities are based on the philosophy of Inclusive Design, often called “Universal Design” or “Design for All.”  It is a way of thinking that can be applied in any design activity, business practice, program or service involving interaction of people with the physical, social or virtual worlds.
  

Center for Universal Design (CUD)

• CUD is a national information, technical assistance, and research center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and public facilities, outdoor environments, and products.  CUD’s mission is to improve environments and products through design innovation, research, education and design assistance.

Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD)

• IHCD, formerly known as Adaptive Environments (AE), is a 30 year old international non-profit organization, based in Boston, committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities.  IHCD’s work balances expertise in legally required accessibility with promotion of best practices in human-centered or universal design.

Rolling Rains Report

• The Rolling Rains site is a service to the travel & hospitality industry.  It provides resources on Inclusive Tourism - a concept arising from the vigor of a global disability community that both enjoys and asserts the right to full social inclusion.  Inclusive Tourism is the systematic application of Universal Design by the travel and hospitality industry at every stage of a product, service, or policy life cycle. 

Universal Design E-World

• UD E-World was developed and is supported by the Center on Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center), University at Buffalo, State University of New York.  It is an interactive community for professionals, educators, and students interested in learning and contributing to the advancement of UD.  UD E-World serves as a participatory environment with web based tools to support the "community of practice" in universal design.  All ongoing research, development projects and publications can be found on UD E-World.