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What’s Holding You Back From Great Universal Design?
Whenever I take on a Universal Design project, I often recommend a simple step: a stakeholder survey. It’s not glamorous, but it’s both engaging and revealing. Employees, facilities staff, and managers will tell you exactly where a space helps them, where it slows them down, and where it shuts them out. When clients choose to include this step, that feedback sets the stage for everything that follows.
A Smarter Way to Examine Your Workplace Universal Design Now
If you’re serious about universal design, you need a way to see what’s really happening inside your facilities, starting with the people who use them every day.
Universal Design Mistakes: No One Remembers to Check for Universal Design Here
You’ve got automatic doors, a decent elevator, and your lobby looks great. But can your staff get into the storage closet without crashing into a wall?
The Truth About Accessibility Lawsuits
Let’s be blunt: ADA lawsuits aren’t cheap. They’re increasingly common, expensive headaches for businesses of all sizes. And they’re the perfect reminder that universal design shouldn’t be an afterthought.
Why Great Companies Use Universal Design Around the World
Many businesses prioritize universal design in places like the U.S., but what about universal design around the world?
How to Improve Access During Spring Maintenance
April is when facility teams get serious. HVACs get checked. Walls get repainted. Sidewalk cracks and potholes get filled. It’s all part of the seasonal reset that prepares buildings for summer operations. But while you're freshening things up, it’s worth...
Fix These 5 Workplace Design Mistakes to Improve Productivity
Here are five of the biggest workplace design mistakes businesses make when designing their spaces—and how to fix them.
The Astonishing Way Henkel is Making Work Better for Everyone
When Henkel reached out to us, they wanted help identifying and integrating Universal Design (UD) principles—not just for their current site, but for all future projects.Henkel’s headquarters is over 100 years old.
Gen Z’s Workplace Expectations Are Too Important to Ignore
The workforce is changing—fast. Gen Z, the most diverse and socially conscious generation yet, is entering offices, boardrooms, and remote workspaces with a clear expectation: the environments they work in should be as thoughtfully designed as the schools and campuses they came from.