Anybody have experience designing for the retirement community? I'm
looking for best of class sites. Your experiences designing sites
that communicate to people judging eldercare needs? Any entré into
this space.
> Anybody have experience designing for the retirement community? I'm > looking for best of class sites. Your experiences designing sites > that communicate to people judging eldercare needs? Any entré into > this space.
Rick,
An obvious place to start is AARP.org. Just google "older adults" and
you'll end up at a ton of sites, many of which are very good.
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On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Rick Spencer wrote:
> Anybody have experience designing for the retirement community? I'm
> looking for best of class sites. Your experiences designing sites
> that communicate to people judging eldercare needs? Any entré into
> this space.
Rick,
An obvious place to start is AARP.org. Just google "older adults" and
you'll end up at a ton of sites, many of which are very good.
To look at how general web sites do for older adults, you might want
to look at this report:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060214111233/http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/research/oww/AARP-50Sites.pdf
To see research done on web design for older adults, and to see some
guidelines for designing, see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060321162201/http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/research/oww/AARP-LitReview2004.pdf
Dana
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