Authors:
Elizabeth Churchill
Have you ever had that conversation where you discuss which sense you'd miss the most? Sight? Hearing? Smell? Taste? Touch? A recent design discussion brought this to mind. An array of personas generated from discussion had proven to be oddly homogeneous when it came to sensorial capacity: None were hard of hearing and none had tinnitus; none were anosmic; none had visual impairments. We didn't discuss taste, but I bet they all would have been within a "normal" range had we been discussing a food product. None were supertasters nor ageusic, and none had decreased sensation with touch. I…
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