Short excerpt from Dan Mall's YouTube talk "The Role of Belief in Design." The speaker argues that universal design depends less on craft/skill and more on what designers believe about people’s access, rights, and who should be allowed to do what. He frames these as hard design problems that use the same skills as interface design but at a different scale.
So, you know, universal design is creating a set of principles and having a set of principles that can apply to everyone, you know, and a lot of that comes down to not skill and craft, but belief. I think that's what's really tough about that, is what do you believe about what people have access to? What do you believe about their rights? What do you believe about who should be able to do what and who should not be able to do what? Those are hard design problems. It's the same skill that you would take, you know, drawing an interface for people to, you know, submit a form. It's just scaled differently.
