Laura Urban Perry is a Seattle-based designer and has provided interface design for BigScreenLive. Laura took an active role in the creation of electronic publishing tools at Aldus and Adobe - the developers of PageMaker, Photoshop, and Acrobat PDF. Laura has led consumer and corporate user interface design efforts for Amazon, America Online, Hewlett Packard, [...]

Paul Glader of the Wall Street Journal has written an interesting article “Home Appliances to Soothe the Aches of Aging Boomers” explaining how appliance manufacturers are starting to design products with seniors in mind. These companies recognize that the “around 76 million baby boomers — born between 1946 and 1964 — control the biggest share [...]

In these days of ‘cloud computing’ its possible to have all your data stored on a central server somewhere ‘in the cloud’ and to access your information from any computer that can connect to the server. With the BigScreenLive product the way we make this easy is to provide our software on a USB memory [...]

Clarity have just released a friendly new mobile phone designed to be easy-to-use by seniors. This ‘unlocked’ GSM phone will work on AT&T and T-Mobile networks. So if you are looking for a mobile phone for a senior in your extended family include this in your research. Here’s a picture:
The CarityLife C900 features include:

Larger buttons.
A [...]

Busy families, and in particular Moms, use computers to keep in touch, share photos, and do web research. If only grandparents were online it would be so much simpler! But many seniors find computers hard to use and families who try to help their seniors have a difficult time. As one of our customers said [...]