Assistive technology gets BusinessWeek attention
Posted by Richard Mander October 12th, 2009. Filed under: Assistive technology, Design leadership, Product Design.
Reena Jana of BusinessWeek wrote an interesting article How tech for the disabled is going mainstream. She discusses how designing products to work for disabled people can lead to products for the masses. A great example is the Apple iPod shuffle, with it’s capability for voice navigation that works for blind users or people who want an eyes-free interface. She quotes an interesting observation from Peter Mahoney of speech recognition company Nuance – “While the disabled aren’t a significant percentage of our users today, they are our biggest power users – they help us push the envelope”.
