U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Designpolicy.org website refresh improves accessibility of information.

Based on requests and feedback from the usability community, the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative has improved the accessibility of our website. The text is bigger and bolder.

Most importantly we have made available text-only HTML versions of Redesigning America's Future and the Final Summit Report.

Links to the text-only Redesigning America's Future are located here and on the Policy Proposals page.

Links to the text-only Summit Final Report are located here and on the Summit Report page. At the moment, it does not include a text-only version of the tables of ranked policy proposals, but they are made available in a Word document form here.

Welcome to the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Design is the world remade in human form.

The U.S. National Design Policy Initiative advocates for a governmental plan of action to support design in service of U.S. economic competitiveness and democratic governance.

The U.S. design communities seek to enable through a U.S. national design policy:

• design promotion to boost the demand for American goods and services,
• innovation policy to protect American intellectual property and support the People’s entrepreneurial spirit,
• design standards to guarantee inclusion, sustainability, safety, and quality in the experiences of the human remade world; and
• policy as designed to address design’s role in making American democratic values tangible to the People.

In a letter supporting the opening of the Fourth Federal Design Assembly in 1978, President Carter wrote:

Good design can help us meet our commitment to improve the efficiency of government…and reaffirm our concern for the human side of government.

Design policy enables good design.