This weblog post (dated November 13, 2005) from uiGarden reprints the seven basic principles of universal design to guide a wide range of design disciplines. They were collaborately compiled by advocates of universal design, which include architects, product designers, engineers, and environmental design researchers.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN: The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.

These seven principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.

The website design of uiGarden is also very good. It demonstrates many good features of highly usable web.

uiGarden is a bilingual on-line magazine that provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners who work in the user interface design (including user experience, information architecture, GUI, and usability) field in the Chinese and the English speaking worlds to publish their thinking and exchange views with each other. The goal of uiGarden is to facilitate information exchange and communication between the Chinese and western user experience design communities.