As I was analyzing my stepfathers’ obstacles as a blind person, I recognize that he struggles with things like not being able to call a cab, get dressed, get directions, and even order food. I also noticed that he walked around with a white cane all of the time. I thought of merging a camera with a voice control function technology into a white cane and thoroughly identified what problems this technology would solve. Therefore, I split the boxes into what problems were more urgent to a blind person. I also put into perspective the different obstacles and evaluated them by important and urgent category.
important assumptions: Cordless things are better for the blind
Non-important assumption: All blind people take cabs.
Non-important assumption( Difficult to test): Blinds have trouble getting dress
important assumptions( Need to test): There is a significant amount of blind people that do not read brittle.
this is great research for a very real problem that many people face. with the right design, this can help more than just your stepfather. not many people think about these innovations