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Groups of users with special needs

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Elderly

  • Larger buttons
  • Less complicated
  • Voice navigation

Visually impaired

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  • Voice controlled
  • Increase fonts

Children

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  • Security / parental control
  • Simpler vocabulary
  • animations
    • make it interesting for them

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Software which gives you errors

  • Pokemongo
    • Doesn’t tell you what to do when you can’t log in
  • Music widgets
    • Two buttons that do similar things are pretty close to eachother
    • Causes user error
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  • The designers weren’t trying to make these problems, they probably just didn’t get the feedback
    • Need to think about what can happen

Variations in physical ability and workspaces

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  • Ergonomics
    • Reduces physical stress
    • Healthier way of doing everyday things
    • Built specifically for the user
    • “the study of people’s efficiency in their working environment.” - Google

Kinds of variances

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  • Vision
    • low Vision
    • color blind
    • dyslexic
  • Hearing
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    • impairment / deaf
    • Might need visual or tactile alert
  • Touch
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    • Might have less ability to move

Cognitive ability

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  • Memory
    • Retention of how to use the system
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  • Experience
    • Having prior experience with similar software
  • Ability to learn
  • Problem solving

Personality

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  • Certain personalities might get more frustrated
  • Certain personalities might like to process information differently

Cultural differences

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  • Language
    • Is it easy to translate
    • Knowing that a sentence means what you think it means
      • Not just translating the exact words
    • Currencies
      • Decimal points, etc.
    • Dates and numbers
    • icons
      • some things could be offensive
      • Some icons don’t have the same meanings in other cultures