It is well-established that professional industrial designers who have designed and launched consumer products must gather and respond to feedback from users to create a design that is well received in the market. Designing in a silo leads to implicit bias, exclusion of diverse opinions, expensive mistakes, and other such problems that make products unacceptable to produce.
Industrial design students are learning co-designing techniques in the classroom that they can take with them to the workplace. Students who co-design with an intended user are more successful in creating products that are accepted by the users than students who work in silos.

In this case study, I facilitated and examined a graduate-level industrial design studio where students partnered with persons with disabilities from the local community to co-design accessible products. In this paper, I present findings from interviews with the students whose projects were positively received by the intended community and recommend the tools and techniques that they used to other design educators and practitioners.