In an increasingly audio-driven world, the University of Houston’s Product Experience Design (PXD) Lab is creating new pathways to Braille literacy for blind and low-vision learners. With a new two-device learning system called LUCID, PXD Lab designers aim to make tactile literacy more accessible, engaging and self-directed. Designer Varshini Chouthri, a UH alum, and Min Kang, industrial design professor and PXD Lab director, recently received the prestigious Red Dot Award for LUCID — an international recognition of the lab’s growing reputation as a hub for human-centered, technology-driven design. The honor…
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