In 1987 American Ron Mace, a professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina and confined to a wheelchair by polio, coined the term "universal design."
1987 年，美國北卡羅萊納大學建築系教授、自己也因小兒麻痺症而困坐輪椅的朗麥斯首先使用「通用設計」一詞。