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Senior Design Principles: Visual Accommodation

by Max Baumgarten on June 5, 2010

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How can product designers create senior friendly products that rectify problems related to vision accommodation? If an object is created with multiple displays, having displays at different depths can confuse the viewer. We don’t want that.

So to create a product with elder friendly features, all of the displays should be placed at an equal and optimal distance from the viewer. Take for example a dashboard on a car; it is ideal for all of the meters, buttons, and menus to be located at a near-equal distance from the driver

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