Global Universal Design Commission, Inc., (GUDC)

Universal Design (UD) increases usability, safety and health of environments, products and systems in response to the diversity of people and abilities. With attention focused on the changing demographics, differences in functional ability and preferences are part of everyday life experience. UD represents a paradigm for design of the built environment and products to address this diversity and increase use by all by introducing flexibility, choice and accommodating features to the physical world and business practices.

With support from the public and private sectors, the Global Universal Design Commission, Inc. (GUDC) is a not-for-profit corporation established to increase understanding and use of universal design to change the world in which we live.