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Carol’s Web: See the net through the eyes of an aging boomer
Immersion Active is a marketing agency that targets the boomer demographic. Sometime recently they released an excellent “Interactive Aging Simulator” - its a Jakon Neilsen-esque (sp?) dissection of a hypothetical website from the perspective of aging users and covers everything from designing with high-contrast colors, to information density on pages, to choosing good imagery.
If you’re a designer, its worth your 10 minutes to go through. Even if you’re not designing a boomer-targeted website, most of the lessons are applicable to any project.
Hell, I’m only 30, and I’ve had enough 6pt fonts already.
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