Cookware developed specifically for the blind and visually impaired communities requires a good blend of ergonomic and tactile design elements. While today’s product designs across industries shoot for minimalism, ditching bulky gear for a more elemental and bare look, the lack of sensory components overlooks those who might benefit from an ergonomic design, like the visually impaired community. French industrial designer Dorian Famin created Ugo, a two-part induction stovetop, to help streamline work in the kitchen for the blind community.
Ugo is a portable, two-part induction stovetop that helps blind people navigate cooking through haptic dials and an overall ergonomic build. At the center of Ugo’s design, Famin incorporated a chunky stove dial that clicks into place when turned to the right. The size of the stove dial enhances the stove’s ergonomic design by guiding the user’s sense of touch to the stovetop’s main power function. Famin’s stovetop also implements wide, easy-to-grip handles, ensuring safe carrying and boosting the stove’s tactile attributes. Ugo also recites step-by-step recipes to users, weaving in the sense of hearing to aid blind people’s experience in the kitchen. This addition allows room for users to engage with the cookware and accessories already in their kitchen and get cooking while Ugo narrates each step along the way.
While cookware for the visually impaired still has a long way to go, designers notice the lack of inclusive home products and create appliances that streamline everyday tasks. Striking a balance between tactile, bulky stove dials and clever incorporation of sensory elements, Famin’s Ugo boasts accessibility without compromising its refined personality.
The Proclamation Duo from Proclamation Goods is called a kitchen anti-set for a reason. Together, the two-pan (with lid included) combo effectively performs the job of a skillet, a wok, a stockpot, and even a dutch-oven, challenging the idea that home cooks need a cabinet full of cookware. Designed to be versatile enough to use independently, or hinged together to form a heat-trapping oven, you can actually cook everything from phenomenal steaks to pizzas to braises. The iF Design Award-winning Proclamation Duo is a breath of fresh air in cookware design.
“We’re passionate about creating thoughtful, versatile designs with a personality that weren’t previously available in the market, and we are thrilled to have won such a prestigious award as the iF Design Award for that work,” says Tony Leo, Proclamation Goods’ Chief Product Officer. Versatile is probably the best word to describe the Proclamation Duo. The two-piece anti-set’s design allows it to replace the need to own a litany of pots and pans. The Duo includes a 12” Skillet and 7QT hybrid Pot (plus a matching lid). The Skillet comes in a choice between naturally low-stick, high-performance Carbon Steel or a lightweight, incredibly even cooking multi-ply Stainless Steel, while the 7-quart Pot comes in the same multi-ply Stainless Steel construction, featuring an aluminum core for excellent heat conduction. Both the pans are designed to be induction and oven-compatible, have hollow-cast insulated handles that stay cool on the stovetop, and offer a patent-pending “ball-in-socket” hinging mechanism on the opposite end that allows them to interlock to become a large enclosed vessel, like a Dutch or French Oven.
This ability to effectively hinge and layer the two vessels helps you achieve much more with less. You can use the Skillet to pan-sear a cut of meat before braising it in the Pot or prepare a marinara sauce in the Pot before making a deep-dish Dutch oven pizza. The two vessels, with their interlocking ability, allow you to expand your cooking abilities without needing to expand your kitchen arsenal. They also prove that utensil designs, which have been around and mostly unchanged for centuries, shouldn’t be taken for granted and that there’s always room for great innovation!
The Proclamation Duo isn’t just consciously designed… it’s conscientiously designed too. The Duos are made in the USA from responsibly-sourced materials and are 100% chemical and toxin-free. The company is also a part of the 1% for the Planet movement, pledging to donate one percent of all sales to environmental non-profits, and has committed to use its burgeoning success to support sustainable agriculture and access to nutritious food for all. Each Duo kit is designed to be naturally low-stick, scratch-resistant, and dishwasher safe… and here’s the part that really brings home the bacon – the Proclamation Duo even packs a lifetime warranty, with the promise to provide the great taste of home-cooked meals for generations to come!
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Designer: Tony Leo of Proclamation Goods
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The Proclamation Duo: Two Pans, One Modern Dutch Oven
The Proclamation Duo was created to challenge the notion that you need a bloated 10-piece set of cookware to be successful in the kitchen, and instead empowering home chefs to cook more with less. It is a two pan cookware kit that includes the 12” sidekick Skillet and 7QT hybrid Pot, plus a matching lid, designed to stand alone or hinge together to create a Dutch oven while cooking and nest together in a streamlined stack when dinner’s done.
Fewer pieces means less clutter. Nested design for streamlined storage. Reinforced handles to hang above stove. Beautifully designed so you never need to put away.
Built for versatility: sauté, braise, fry, bake, and more. Responsibly sourced stainless steel with aluminum core for perfectly even cooking.
Unmatched Hybrid Design for Ultimate Versatility
1. 12″ Stainless Steel Skillet. Wide cooking surface for quick and even heating. Low, sloping sides for easy access. 2. Hinged Side Handles. Patent-pending ball and socket offers option to hinge pans together, creating a dutch oven. 3. 7QT Stainless Steel Pot. Rounded sides and a wide surface, ideal for almost any meal. 4. Hollow Cast, Dual Finish Handles. Stays cool on your stovetop for easy, no fuss handling. 5. Multi-Ply Construction. High quality stainless steel with aluminum core for excellent heat conduction and distribution. Lightweight and dishwasher safe. 6. Pourable, No-Drip Rim. Specially-formed lip for easy pouring from all angles.
Designed To Last For Generations
Lifetime Warranty
Their Story
Frustrated with unused, wasted cookware pieces and the toxicity associated with nonstick pots and pans, they set out to design an endlessly versatile and clean cookware solution. Proclamation creates intelligent kitchen essentials for the conscious consumer who cares about sustainability and cooking ‘farm to table’ whenever possible. They source responsibly, embrace minimalism, and care about our impact on the planet.
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Designers: Amund Røed, Komal Rathi, & Angelica Aya
With 3 pots to cook and 1 pot to store, the Tefal Ovation cookware set will more than double your amount of kitchen cabinet space! Each pot can be stacked on top of each other thanks to its innovative nesting design. Even the lids go completely flat unlike others with static handles that get in the way. In varying sizes, each with interior measure markers, they’re all a cook needs for a variety of sophisticated recipes.
The MeMeNtiC Connected Pot merges traditional cookware with modern tech in an aim to bring people back together in the kitchen. With its interactive lid and visual timeline body, users can connect with a favorite chef to recreate a famous dish or upload their family’s favorite recipes…. all with step-by-step instructions and visual cues that assist in the process. Better yet, data can be shared with loved ones in other locations for real time interaction as if you were doing it together!
There’s a big circle on top of the pot that creates an emotional interaction between the user and this cooking appliance. This circle lights up (white light) when the connected pan-pot is in the standby mode, during this mode, all interactive information is displayed on the lid of the pot-pan. When the circle turns to blue colored light, it means the food inside hasn’t been cooked yet, but it gently turns into orange-red color when your food is ready.
The Vacimi collection makes cooking a cinch with minor innovations that have a big impact. A few of these include a diamond pattern on the underside of each aluminum piece that helps to evenly distribute the flame from a burner. The glass lids feature a convent flip-top that controls steam and pressure with a simple press of the hand. Lastly, the stackable design makes better utilization of storage space in cramped kitchens.
The Vacimi collection includes a multi-pan, a 2-handled pot, stew, steamer and 2 lids for a total of 6 pieces.
Designer: Vacimi
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Cookware developed specifically for the blind and visually impaired communities requires a good blend of ergonomic and tactile design elements. While today’s product designs across industries shoot for minimalism, ditching bulky gear for a more elemental and bare look, the lack of sensory components overlooks those who might benefit from an ergonomic design, like the visually impaired community. French industrial designer Dorian Famin created Ugo, a two-part induction stovetop, to help streamline work in the kitchen for the blind community.
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