UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS INCLUSIVE

The OXO story, like many great stories of discovery, began with a simple problem. One day in the late 1980s, Betsey Farber was having difficulty with using a old-fashioned vegetable peeler—no doubt due to the arthritis in her hands—and attempted to improvise a more comfortable handle using clay. She brought this to the attention of her husband Sam, and during their conversation they were suddenly struck with an idea. “We decided we wanted to do something about the bad design throughout kitchen utensils,” Sam later told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. “Why couldn’t there be comfortable tools that are easy to use, not just for arthritis victims, but for everybody?”

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