Hello!

My name is Matt Finder and I am a 3rd year product design student at Carnegie Mellon University. I love food and have recently been trying to become better at cooking, so, for my mid-semester project, I decided to design a product for measuring cooking ingredients to replace traditional measuring cups and spoons, and I hope to make the design more useful for blind and sighted users alike. I am trying to get as much feedback as possible so I can design something that will really make a difference for both blind and sighted users, so I have been posting around cooking forums that I have joined to hear what sighted cooking and food lovers have to say.

If you have anything to share, such as what types of measuring cups you currently use, how you use them, what you do or don't like about your measuring cups, or anything else about measuring cups, I would love to hear about it. If you have any visually impaired friends or relatives and know about how they use measuring cups, that would be amazingly helpful as well. Also, if you have any photos that you would like to share, that would be great, too!

Thanks so much!

Matt

Hmmmm, what needs to be changed?? Have a couple of sets of dry measures--fill and shake or use edge to flatten, spoons that do the same. And a 1,2,and 4 cup clear liquid measure. All do the job, along with a scale for dry weights?
I have heard suggested dry sets with a cup and a half measure and a 3/4 one? Also a 3/4 teaspoon which could be used twice for a 1 1/2?

In over forty years in the business haven't seen much different--maybe, some galleys have 1, 2, and 4 liter metal measures for liquids

Nan

Thanks for the reply!

I should have mentioned this earlier, but one of my major goals for the project is to make measuring cups more accessible for the blind, but still be useful for sighted cooking. I didn't mention this because I wasn't sure how many people would be able to help me with that aspect, but I'll change my original post to include this.

Matt

Since the usual format works, how about braille (sp?) on the upper rim? Have you done research, these may already be available??
Janie, a good buddy here has a visually challenged husband, he must have some ideas--Yo, Jon, whatcha think??
Nan

I have a sight impaired friend - standard measuring cups are just fine with her.