Vision – Case studies
Inspiration Park
Imagination
Young people with visual impairments worked closely with the design team to create an urban park with distinctive features for diverse users.
C system
Coley Porter Bell
This project devised a ‘smart’ labelling system for clothing using a tactile language of shapes to enable visually impaired people to shop independently for colour and size.
Digital Wayfinding
Roundel and Dalton Maag
This project developed design protocols for electronic font displays in a bid to improve the legibility and communication of digital public signage.
Consider
Wire Design
This simple, practical software tool was devised to help graphic designers and their clients understand the effects of common visual impairments on their communications.
U Control
Kyoto Challenge team led by John Bateson
This project worked in partnership with a blind artist to develop a new, easy-to-use remote control based on a modular system of components.
Patchworks
Include 2007 Challenge team
A project to design a web-based system for personal mapping and wayfinding in order to improve mobility for people with sight loss.
Magnifeye / Eyewonder
Include 2007 Challenge team
Two innovative vision aids for people with sight loss: Magnifeye is a flat magnifying tablet device; Eyewonder is a pocket-sized projector.
Eyemo
Tokyo Challenge Workshop team
The design team worked with a partially sighted teacher to develop a pair of spectacles that constantly adjust the image according to light and colour conditions.
What a load of bollards
Dublin Challenge Workshop team
A proposal to improve the experience of historic Dublin for people with visual and other impairments by attaching navigation aids to bollards.
My way
Dublin Challenge Workshop team
The development of an online web service for visually impaired people to find the right route in city centres.
Project Pluto
Seoul Challenge team led by Hazel Macmillan
This project developed a small, lightweight and portable device that plays sound files and displays text, enabling visually impaired people to access information on the go.
Save your sight
Gero Grundmann
This communication design study developed a campaign to encourage people over 45 to be less complacent about their eye health so that fewer eye-threatening illnesses would remain undetected.
Working Light
Matthew Harrison
This project explored the provision of more variation and control in office lighting in the context of an ageing population with progressive sight loss.
Sight Line
Ross Atkin
This study worked with blind and partially sighted people to explore and map how they navigate the street environment
