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   During this week, we've learned "Design for accessibility" and we also saw a video about the wheel chair.


   A good design should not only has a pretty appearance, it should also has to adopt the community. According to the census, there is a big portion of disability, elder, and kids in the United States. These people have faced social and technical barriers. In order to break these barriers, we should make our designed products become more universal, which means the design that benefit people of all ages and ability.


   We also saw a video "Hot Wheel" during class. John Hokinberry designed a wheel chair, which can climb stairs, adjust the height of the chair (allowed the disabled people become the same height as the regular people), and use on the sand. As you can tell, these improvements can make the life of the disabled people become easier, especially to adjust the height. Normally, we expected people who use the wheel chair to be shorter than us, but thats just normally what we see in the current society. If there is a wheel chair that can make the disabled people become the same height as the normal people, that would make the life of the disabled people become a lot easier. Even though, John has a great idea about the wheel chair, the wheel cost too much that not everyone can buy it in the market. I hope the designer can solve these problems in the future.