I really enjoyed the presentation by Design For America. Our group chose what we thought was the most challenging scenario: Design solutions to assist the visually impaired in their social lives. We learned about products like Blitab http://blitab.com/ which is a tablet for the visually impaired individuals. Our idea was to combine this tablet with a smart phone and design an app similar to “Friendzie.” This app would link to Facebook and allow its users to search for friends based on certain categories or interests, such as “visually impaired,” “legally blind,” “knitting,” “yoga” etc. The app could link to uber for friends wanting to share rides to certain events. The app would even contain transcriptions of movies, that would capture and process the audio of the movie, so the user could simultaneously be getting descriptions of the action through the Blitab while also hearing the audio. One group also came up with an app for google glasses, that would capture the faces of the individuals you interact with and direct the user’s head with gentle vibrations around the ears to direct the blind person’s head toward the person. The google glasses could also link with Facebook and Linkedin to tell the person’s name through a speaker in the user’s ear using current face recognition software. Design For America is a very inspiring group of multidisciplinary individuals working together to solve the problems of our society through innovative design.