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Mastercard Redesigns Credit/Debit Cards with Notches For the Visually Impaired
Here’s a great example of designing something for an impaired population, and making an improvement that benefits all. Mastercard has redesigned their debit, credit and pre-paid cards with different physical notches in them—round, trapezoidal and checkmark-shaped—so that the visually impaired can distinguish them by touch.
![image](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c976f55baa792056a0fcbaacdfdce846/aba141662381c215-46/s1280x1920/cefb75e5aa4a7342542e7c702f038efc47e4355a.png)
The additional benefit, of course, is that everyone will be able to use the off-center notches to accurately orient the cards, by touch, when inserting them into a machine.
![image](https://64.media.tumblr.com/41351929f80717c95b4f509ed426094c/aba141662381c215-75/s1280x1920/20031ec3807c381ff37d041782c920f9e371fd28.jpg)
I’d like to see a little more differentiation between the shapes, but I guess there’s only so far they can take it with the material.
https://www.core77.com/posts/110458/Mastercard-Redesigns-CreditDebit-Cards-with-Notches-For-the-Visually-Impaired