Design for
special needs
In this project, a special needs area was identified and design intervention was done to come up with solution that will eliminate the gap.
Process followed
Followed double diamond method to discover the problem, understand the user and finally come up with a design solution
Let's identify our problem
In 2008, Maurice LeBlanch who is M.S.M.E & CP at Childern’s Hospital at Stanford, estimated the number of amputee population.
Total world population: 6.7 Billion Incidence of amputation: 1.5 per 1000 World population of amputees: 10 million
% of arm amputees: 30% Arm amputees worldwide: 3 million Arm amputees in the developing countries: 2.4 million
34.3% of the total activities done in a day involve phone
One handed products
Let's look at a persona of a wrist amputee
Day in the life of a wrist amputee
Most of the android based phone have a features called One hand UI
Thumb zones
Feature Identification
how might we make the users who have one hand disarticulated from wrist, interact with their phones easily?
Common Problems Faced By the Users
Usability testing with the users
One Hand mode experience
Introducing Helping Hand
User's hand should be at ease.
The interface should be accessible to the users very easily.
Interface should be intuitive for the user.
User should find it easy to navigate from one app to another.
Any new design element should be consistent with the current interface of the device.
Ideation for solutions
Interactive buttons are closer to thumb
Camera
Easy to zoom in with one hand, Tap the magnifier and gesture slide up to zoom
