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Everyone gets a turn.

Wellness tools, games you can play with your eyes closed, and paths into tech. The Mind Pot designs them with disabled and neurodivergent people, not just for them.

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Why this matters

Most technology still assumes you can see the screen and cope with a busy one.

The Mind Pot starts from the other end. Audio-first where it helps, calm by default, private by design, and shaped by the people each tool is for.

2.5 billion

people need at least one assistive product, including apps that support communication and cognition.

As low as 3%

of that need is met in some low- and middle-income countries.

Source: WHO & UNICEF, Global Report on Assistive Technology (2022) (opens in new tab)

How the pot grew

Every question grew a bigger one.

It started with one question about feelings. Each answer showed who was still being left out, and the work grew to include them.

  1. 01 · A seed

    How do we name what we feel?

    It began with an interest in mental health and emotional wellness, and in the moment you can't quite name a feeling.

  2. 02 · Roots

    How does the mind actually work?

    Curiosity turned into research, and research turned into a tool that helps people name emotions layer by layer.

    What grew:Wheel of Emotions (opens in new tab)
  3. 03 · First leaves

    What if the app itself is overwhelming?

    Many neurodivergent people find loud, fast, unpredictable apps exhausting. So everything became quieter, more predictable and private by default.

    What grew:Calm mode, a quieter way to use every tool
  4. 04 · In bloom · Now

    Could apps and games work without sight?

    Fashion is one of the most visual worlds there is. Yet at a fashion show in Nairobi, blind models were at the centre of it. If a runway can make room for people who can't see it, so can an app or a game. Most still assume you can see the screen, and that's the gap we're now working on.

    What grew:Audio-first games for blind and low-vision players
  5. 05 · Next · Not yet planted

    What should we build next, and with whom?

    The next chapter gets written with blind, low-vision and neurodivergent people, and with the partners who back them.

    Help write it →

What’s growing here

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How we build

Accessibility isn’t a feature we add at the end. It’s where every decision starts, and this website follows the same rules. Open Reading options at the top to try it.

Many ways in
Read it, hear it or speak it. No tool should depend on just one sense.
Shaped by users
We test with the people each tool is for, and change it based on what we learn.
No surprises
Navigation stays where you left it. Nothing autoplays or pops up.
Your pace
No timers and no rushing. Tools save your progress.
Your privacy
What you enter stays on your device. Feelings aren't data to harvest.
For funders, scholars & partners

Help this grow.

The Mind Pot is independent and founder-led by David Kiragu, a Software and Data Engineer. Support now shapes what gets built next, and who it’s built with.

  • 01

    Fund the research

    Grants for accessible design research: audio-first play, calm interfaces, and speech input that works with every accent.

  • 02

    Co-design with us

    Organisations working with blind, low-vision or neurodivergent people: help us test and shape each tool.

  • 03

    Back the builder

    Scholarships and fellowships that deepen the study of accessible technology behind this work. Volunteers are welcome too.

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