Designing for Sight: How Dementia Changes Vision- An Experiential Online Workshop

Come and explore how dementia impacts your sight. Putting yourself in the shoes of a person with dementia: how might you respond, what might help you? How might this inform your research? Your practice?

An interactive and experiential online workshop which informs and inspires.

Aims and objectives

• Raise awareness that dementia affects more than memory. Vision and other senses can change in ways many designers and researchers don’t expect.
• Demonstrate specific vision issues common in dementia and practical mitigations.
• Foster researcher and technology-provider thinking about real-world impact and funding-aligned relevance.
• Enable participants to critically evaluate and adapt designs, prototypes, and study plans to be more dementia-inclusive.

What attendees will get out of it

• Clear, actionable guidelines for designing indoor/outdoor spaces, interfaces, and devices that account for dementia-related visual changes.
• Hands-on experience simulating the impact of dementia on sight.
• Concrete examples (e.g., colour/contrast choices for buttons, signage legibility, reducing visual clutter) that can be applied immediately.
• Ideas for strengthening research proposals and product roadmaps to increase relevance and impact for people living with dementia.
• Peer discussion, feedback, and practical next steps.

Target audience

• Researchers and technology providers working on indoor and outdoor environments, assistive tech, UX/UI, smart homes, wayfinding and urban design.
• Industry practitioners, designers, and anyone involved in technical solutions at any career stage.
• Those considering funding applications who want to increase the dementia-relevance and impact of their work.

Participation requirements & logistics

• Duration: 1.5 hours.
• Highly interactive: participants will be expected to take part in activities and breakout rooms.
• Cameras ON required: please join focused and free from multitasking.
• Recommended device: laptop or desktop (preferred over tablet/phone) for best interactive experience.

To find out more about the workshop delivery partner, please visit the Enrichment for the Elderly website

Places will be limited, so please register here early to avoid disappointment.