Effective Universal Design
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Poor Universal Design
When thinking of types of images to search for in relation to universal design that addresses issues in an instructional context, I immediately thought of television remotes. While there are some TV remotes that remain simple and user-friendly, it seems that remotes have become increasingly confusing to use with the invention of things like On Demand and DVR. I chose to display two instructional images of television remotes created by different manufacturers.
The first image I posted is an example of effective universal design in my opinion. The black lines are easier to see, and simple to understand. Also, there is minimal text that is able to serve its purpose of description.
The second image I posted is an example of poor universal design in my opinion. The orange lines are not very easy to see, and confusing. There is also a lot of text very close together, which makes it more difficult to indicate which button belongs to which function description.
One thing to note here with these images is that while there are symbols on the remotes, the text is in English. Thus, these particular images do not address language barrier. That being said, the companies that manufacture these remotes most likely have these images with text in other languages to cater to their consumers' needs.
I think the first instructional image is much less overwhelming than the second. What do you all think?
I find both images overwhelming. There is too much text and the information on the images has not been "chunked." A better way to handle both images would be to divide the remote into a few segments and then list out the information for each segment. This would prevent the viewer from feeling overwhelmed or confused.
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