The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Ben Wintner The Fast ...

Accessibility should not be a grudging afterthought. With planning, it can lead to elegant, beautiful, and engaging art. Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short ...

A series of QUT research studies have shed light on the importance of involving individuals with intellectual disabilities in the development of assistive technologies. With significant projected ...

Steven J. Orfield's firm, Orfield Laboratories (OL), has spent 50 years in architectural design, research, and testing, dedicated to the premise that what matters in design is the end user, because ...

What does it look like when disabled people are viewed not as edge cases or afterthoughts in the design process, but as the default users? What happens when, instead of flattening disability into an ...

The Co-Chair of the design firm IDEO Tim Brown once stated, "Design can help our lives in the present. Design thinking can help us chart a path into the future.” One of the great takeaways from the ...

What are the main considerations for designing products serving a community with a particular disability? Best strategies for creating successful product designs. Designing products for those with ...

What would it be like to live in a city designed by, or at least with, the disabled? For starters, that metropolis’s main public library and its most august museum would not sit atop monumental ...