- Approximately 10% of the world's population, or 650 million people, live with a disability. 80% of disabled people live in developing countries. - The number of disabled people is increasing due to population growth, medical advances, and aging. In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, on average 11.5% of a person's lifespan is lived with disabilities. - Universal design aims to make products and spaces usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation. It promotes equitable, intuitive, and comfortable use for people of all ages and abilities.

1. Universal Design
Siddarth Kengadaran

2. 10%
10 per cent of the total world's
population,or roughly 650 million
people, live with a disability
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability

3. About 2 in 10 adult live with disability
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability

4. Eighty per cent of persons with
disabilities live in developing
countries
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability
They are the world’s largest minority
Women report higher incidents of disability than men.

5. This figure is increasing through population
growth, medical advances and the ageing process

6. 2002
33.86%
61.77%
4.37%
2013
65.64%
5.27%
29.09%
2014
65.70%
5.80%
28.50%
0-14 years
65+ years
15-64 years
Our population is aging.
Indian Population

7. In countries with life expectancies over
70 years, individuals spend on average
about 8 years, or 11.5 per cent of their
life span, living with disabilities

8. Accessible
Design
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9. Universal design doesn’t place focus on people with disabilities.
Instead, it recognizes that no one has the same definition of “normal.”

11. Provides safer, easier and
convenient accessibility to
everyone, everywhere.

12. How ?
EQUITABLE USE
The design is useful and marketable to
people with diverse abilities.

13. FLEXIBILITY IN USE
The design accommodates a wide range
of individual preferences and abilities.

14. SIMPLE AND INTUITIVE USE
Use of the design is easy to understand,
regardless of the user’s experience,
knowledge, language skills or concentration.

15. PERCEPTIBLE INFORMATION
The design communicates information
effectively to the user, regardless of the
environment or the user’s abilities

16. TOLERANCE FOR ERROR
The design minimizes hazards and
negative consequences of accidental
actions.
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17. LOW PHYSICAL EFFORT
The design can be used efficiently and
cofortably and with a minimum of fatigue.

18. SIZE AND SPACE FOR
APPROACH AND USE
Appropriate size and space is provided for use,
regardless of user’s body size or posture.

19. Design is not just what it looks like
and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs