# When we design for disability, we all benefit

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMidAtlantic
- Speaker: Elise Roy
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/elise_roy_when_we_design_for_disability_we_all_benefit)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world -- a perspective that could solve some of our largest problems. As she says: "When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm."

## Lectures

1. [When we design for disability, we all benefit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/elise_roy_when_we_design_for_disability_we_all_benefit/0743700c55d6), 14 min (TED's player)