Exploring the boundaries of Design for All J.F.M. Molenbroek, M.C. Dekker Section Applied Ergonomics and Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, NL j.f.m.molenbroek@tudelft.nl , m.c.dekker@tudelft.nl Abstract Inclusive Design is a concept that has gained momentum through the past decades and is more topical than ever in today’s age of demographic change, because it underlines the necessity to include other user groups than young, healthy adults into the design or creation of new products and environments. For many years, the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology has been involved in research and education in this field. In the Applied Ergonomics courses and in graduation projects, many special user groups came into focus, for example people that are left-handed, colour-blind, sight- or hearing-impaired, very large, small or heavy, people with a very high or low IQ, slow or fast people, and people with more or less experience with certain tasks. Not only the causes for the reduced capacities are subject of consideration, but especially the effects on daily life were examined. Through the years we learned that Inclusive Design for all 6 billion people on earth is an illusion, considering the overwhelming diversity of requirements of the mentioned user groups. That is why we tend to replace Inclusive Design by ‘Design for More’, in the continuous pursuit of awareness and knowledge of the excluded groups during the design process. Increased knowledge of the various target or user groups enables future designers and creators to make a responsible and deliberate choice. Keywords: Elderly People, Handicapped, Disabled, Universal Design, Inclusive Design, Design for All 1. Introduction Inclusive Design stands for excluding the fewest potential users possible during the design process of products, systems, or environments, and the continuous effort to extend the target group as much as possible. The concept has been known for decades, but did not become as popular as the believers would have liked. There is no big theory or model, but there are general guidelines like the 7 Principles of Universal Design [1]. Nine countries considered these important enough to present them in their own country in their own language on websites of well-known institutes: France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, USA, and The Netherlands. Other activities for industry, educational and governmental organisations are the very inspiring series of biannual Include Conferences, which have been held in London since 2001. [2]. In the UK [3] and the Netherlands [4], there are Annual Design Competitions on Inclusive Design for education and industry, bringing forth good PR and