Inclusive design: Design for the whole population

This edited volume is a major foundation for inclusive design research and practice. It gathers theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives around the idea that design should respond to capability variation across the population. Its EDI contribution is systematically reframing disability and ageing as predictable dimensions of human diversity rather than exceptional cases. The book equips designers to identify exclusion, understand user capabilities and translate that knowledge into design decisions. It remains important because many contemporary EDI methods build on this move from a mythical average user toward population diversity. At the same time, readers should place its capability-oriented framework in dialogue with later work on intersectionality, cultural difference, and power: widening functional access is essential, but it does not, by itself, guarantee equitable participation or representation.