A student of design, Indrani Medhi has developed design guidelines that allow any first-time illiterate person, on first contact with a computer, to immediately realize useful interaction with minimal or no assistance. Medhi's applications are based on a few key principles: extensive use of hand-drawn, semi-abstracted cartoons with voice annotation in the local language, aggressive mouse-over functionality, a consistent help feature, and looping full-context video dramatizing the purpose and mechanism of the application. She has applied these principles to design four applications: job-search for the informal labor market, health-information dissemination, a mobile money-transfer system, and an electronic map.
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