Why the article is helpful

• Examined issues and the process that could lead to successful interface designs when designing for older people
• Encouraged to deliberately break out of assumptions
• Ways of altering the design process to address these issues and to obtain useful design contributions from older participants

The authors examined issues and the process that could lead to successful interface designs when designing for older people. It was found that older people have higher difficulty when interacting with low-fidelity prototypes and when improving the design, there were significant improvement on their experiences with a computer. When designing for older people, the authors encouraged to deliberately break out of assumptions that people being designed for are similar to the designer and required greater effort in understanding their distinctive needs. Ways of altering the design process to address these issues and to obtain useful design contributions from older participants were described.

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