I’m wondering if this concept could be used to help simplify the use of technology e.g. remote controls, mobile phones and user interfaces in general on domestic electrical appliances such as washing machines, microwaves, radios etc for a range of people including people living with dementia, visual impairment, dexterity difficulties etc. Perhaps using colours such as green for start/play and red for stop and orange for pause etc and the plastic additions could help to make buttons more tactile and easier to press for people experiencing difficulties with dexterity.

Good luck in the design competition and I look forward to hearing how you get on! : )

I use a Contour RollerMouse Pro2 – I really love it, can use any part of either hand to scroll/click etc, & no pain

Cool camera!

Seems cheating to get others to do hard work of describing

I’m intrigued by this product, but on the limited basis of living with a close friend’s short-term memory loss dementia what I found I needed to do when he moved into supported living, that is, conventionally designed disabled-accessible accommodation, was paste labels with words on them, identifying, for example, which way to turn the key to lock or unlock his door, or which wall switches governed which devices (one in particular needed to stay on but was in a row in which the others would often and safely be turned on and off) and in which kitchen cabinets to find which items (glasses, plates/crockery, foodstuff, even medicines). I also used these adhesive labels to put up notices for care workers to be reminders of something I wanted them to do for him, though I wasn’t sure they would or did heed them. In a situation of blindness, I imagine Braille labels would be more useful than simple texture-coding, but I have no experience of that situation. What has been actual experience of testing these products so far, I wonder? I can see adapting them to include written or Braille words, and designing some to be stuck to surfaces such as I’ve described (walls, cupboards and doors), as being more attractive, noticeable and neater than sticky labels, which don’t come off well at all, have to be scraped off.

One way I imagine I might have used components of this product helpfully is in helping my friend to use the remote controls for his recliner and television, but only if they were adhesive on the back surface. I tried using coloured sticky tabs for this purpose to a limited extent.

From the pictures above it looks like some tags are provided with self-adhesive strips (the cans, the door)?

I wish you well with developing this system.