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** What it is? **
Inclusive design is the design of any type of product, environments and information which can be used by a huge variety of people incuding often excluded groups like people with a handicap, to the maximum level possible. It stands for working with, not for people, designers ask for people opinions, they don’t just assume. Universal design is quite similar but inclusive design holds more of the quality reasonableness to it. Inclusive design isn’t a style of design, no big change in costs. This design process isn’t necessarily aimed at people with disabilities.

** Why do you think inclusive design is important? **
In my opinion I think that inclusive design is an extremely important design process because these people’s ideas help to get more people to get more access to more brilliant activities. Handicaped people can be helped move freely around buildings without worry, knowing that because inclusive design is there to help them get around. Using ramps for easy entry and grooves at the end of staircase rails to make sure the blind know when the stairs end and where they start. But on the other hand all this could cause more work for designers and architects, not only do they have to worry about the quality of the building and that it falls into place but they have to make sure everything turns out right for it to be an inclusive design.

** Conclusion to my Opinion . **
To research this type of design I watched a couple of documentaries on inclusive design and learnt that this design could be very useful for many people therefore my opinion is positive. I also used a couple of sites referring to inclusive design but the documentaries were a lot more insightful.

** Examples of Inclusive design in mature structures. **
This is the Roundhouse, Camden, London. This is an example inclusive design because of its design and how it enables the disabled to make their way around the place. To enter you can either take the stairs or there is a slope which is probably one of the most important things about a shop, because if you don’t know how to get in there is no point going in at all.

Here is a picture of what the end and the beginning of staircase rails look like, this is so that blind men know what they are approaching they can feel where they are and where they are going.