With, not For

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Designing a watch for people who are vision impaired, or blind, is challenging, since talking timepieces are intrusive and not everyone reads Braille. There’s only one answer. Get vision impaired and blind people to design with you, and you’ll create Eone’s Bradley timepiece, which is practical, fashionable, a great fidget toy, and a perfect example of designing for everyone. Brand Manager, Daniel Ly, chatted with Manisha Amin about the timepiece and what inclusive design really means.

In 2017 Eone founder, Hyungsoo Kim, gave a TED Talk explaining why he wanted to make a watch for the vision impaired and blind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E6rfzPFb6M

 

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