LUMAID
Date
Duration
Skillset
2025
14 weeks
User Research, System Design
Prototyping, Ideation
The Lumaid empowers individuals with visual-impairments to complete everyday tasks.
Touch
Audio
Community
Meet Maria
A 42-year-old teacher from San Francisco, CA who deals with macular degeneration in both eyes.
Blacked out Blotches
Blurry Vision
Loss of Peripheral
Awareness in Environment
How does Maria locate items at the grocery store?
How Does Maria find items in her purse?
How does Maria gain context clues of her surrounding environment?
What Are the Difficulties?
Object Recognition
Finding Objects
Reading Text
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"It's hard for people who are slowly losing vision to adapt to an organized lifestyle that requires them to leave objects in a specific place & order"— Low Vision Specialist
….So why do they have to ADAPT?
Challenge:
How to create a habit-building product that smoothly integrates into their existing lifestyle?
Stage 1
Developing an ergonomic and comfortable design
Stage 2
Testing and Prototyping
LUMAID
Bringing Awareness to Environment
Zoom In Dial
Helps User's zoom Camera in and out.
Comfortable Grip
Soft Expandable Fabric Strap
Panoramic View
3 Front Cameras point at different angles to optimize area of vision.