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Senior Design Project (self.Blind)
submitted by saggitarius_sun
I am doing a senior design project and I was wanting some feed back. My project is about designing makeup products and packaging for people on the spectrum of visually impaired. Here are some of my questions:
1. What are the main issues when it comes to interacting with products as a blind person?
2. What do you believe needs to be included more for better interactions with products?
3. What are some issues with make up products that you encounter?
4. What would you like to see improve with make up?
5. How do you go about looking for products by yourself?
1. What are the main issues when it comes to interacting with products as a blind person?
2. What do you believe needs to be included more for better interactions with products?
3. What are some issues with make up products that you encounter?
4. What would you like to see improve with make up?
5. How do you go about looking for products by yourself?
Pidgey96 3 points 1y ago
I am registered blind with very poor vision. I am also colourblind. I see colour but can sometimes struggle to differentiate from oranges/pinks and greens/blues/purples. I find a lot of shade names are not that descriptive of the actual colour. I know what colours go well together, but if a use a blush named ‘thunder’ and a lipstick named ‘live it up’ it can be difficult to tell if they will work. If more products had a description of the actual colour, this would be helpful.
Another issue I have found is going into shops, a lot of products have tiny writing for the shade names. I typically use my iPhone to take a photo of the packaging and zoom in to find the shade. However, so many products have mirrored, reflective packaging, which makes it so hard to get the camera to focus on the writing. If the writing was on a matte/less reflective packaging, reading it would be much easier.
One other thing that would be nice is high quality brushes that had white hair, so it would be easier to see how much product was picked up on the brush, and it can be difficult to actually see on my face if my makeup is even, and always ask for my partner to check this for me.
Another issue I have found is going into shops, a lot of products have tiny writing for the shade names. I typically use my iPhone to take a photo of the packaging and zoom in to find the shade. However, so many products have mirrored, reflective packaging, which makes it so hard to get the camera to focus on the writing. If the writing was on a matte/less reflective packaging, reading it would be much easier.
One other thing that would be nice is high quality brushes that had white hair, so it would be easier to see how much product was picked up on the brush, and it can be difficult to actually see on my face if my makeup is even, and always ask for my partner to check this for me.
CloudyBeep 2 points 1y ago
https://reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/hdkmo9/proposal_readme_for_sighted_visitors_thinking/
bradley22 1 points 1y ago
I think more braille on packaging would be great!
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