Cognition – Case studies
Ello
Seymourpowell
The project developed a compact folding mobile phone specifically for use by older people who struggle cognitively with screen-based digital technology.
STIK
Coporate Edge
This four-part communications toolkit helps designers with dyslexia to take briefs, capture ideas and arrive at solutions that can be communicated to their clients.
Infood
Adecco Creative
A project to develop an accessible graphic system based on symbols for food packaging to enable consumers to quickly and easily determine the ingredients of any product.
Mind Book
Adare
The design team developed a ‘virtual scrapbook’ that triggers memories and facilitates positive interaction between people with dementia, their families and carers.
Ormsthwaite House
JudgeGill
This project designed the blueprint for a modular care home in order to address the cognitive challenges of people with dementia.
Memory Clinics
Pearson Matthews
This project explored the provision of Memory Clinics as a walk-in proactive service on the high street that champions and monitors the maintenance of mental acuity.
Time 2
London Associates
The project developed an interface device to support older people facing cognitive decline to carry out daily tasks.
From A to D
FW design
This project developed a portable navigational tool that works alongside more permanent wayfinding structures to guide people with dementia. It was implemented in Romford town centre.
Chalk
Norway Design Challenge team
This project worked with an older person to develop Chalk, a device which makes the functions on the mobile phone available in a large, accessible and familiar ‘blackboard’ format.
Read Regular
Natascha Frensch
This design study created a new sans serif typeface called Read, designed specifically to help people with dyslexia to improve reading and writing.
TwoTone Phone
Matthew Harrison and Cian Plumbe
This project with BT set out to address digital exclusion by developing creative new ways to connect the over-60s to the communication benefits of broadband.
Living in the Community
Andrew Brand
This project looks at how residential buildings can be made more friendly for young adults with autism and offers design guidance for architects and service providers.
Design and Dementia
Gregor Timlin and Nic Rysenbry
A design study looking at ways to improve dining and bedroom environments in care homes for residents with dementia.
