Designability

Who we are

Designability is a national charity that supports disabled people to live with greater independence. Our expertise is in person-centred design, creating products and services with and for disabled people to enable greater freedom and choice, every day.

Our work focuses on understanding the needs, challenges and aspirations of disabled people by placing them at the heart of everything we do. Through person-centred design, these invaluable insights, combined with creativity and specialist skills, help to inform design decisions at every stage of a project. This results in innovative, engaging and practical designs of accessible products and services to transform the everyday lives of disabled people.

Over the last 50+ years, we have worked on a range of pioneering projects from the multi-award-winning Accessible Pushchair design and national guidance on Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging to our flagship Wizzybug powered wheelchairs for very young children. We collaborate with organisations, businesses and partnerships to help create positive change in the world of accessible design. To date, we've transformed over 300,000 lives in the UK.

Here at Designability, we will be working on many exciting developments over the next few years. Our plans including growing the team, moving the workshop to a new Bath location, starting multiple new projects, and embarking on our largest-ever piece of research with disabled people to shape our future priorities.

As a charity, we respond to specific needs with the aim of our products and services reaching those who need them, whilst also inspiring new markets to blossom.
We strive for a future where disabled people live the life they choose, every day.

Our culture and values

A career at Designability means working as part of a diverse team of product designers, engineers and technicians, fundraisers, occupational therapists, marketeers and administrative staff. We all work closely together with the shared goal to make a difference.

Looking after its employees is important to Designability – supporting everyone to be happy, healthy and enjoy a good work/life balance means that we live our values of being creative, practical and inclusive and in turn meet our mission to create equality of opportunity for disabled people by removing barriers to independence.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Designability is committed to providing a safe, healthy and productive environment for all our staff, those for whom the charity are providing a service and other people we come into contact with during the course of Designability business.