Put braille stickers on your launchpad.

[jonahs]

Adding some texture goes a long, looong way towards improving the usability.

I'm still tweaking configurations. I've found a few useful setups. I like dividing it into 4x4 by putting something at each corner. You then get a 2x2 block in the middle. In this center quadrant I use stickers with 1,2,3 and 4 bumps, but you could do 1,3,2 and 4 if that's how your brain works. It helps to keep this numbering system with the center and horizontal rows as but it isn't crucial.

You don't need to put a marker in the ne,nw,se or se corners, but it doesn't hurt.

Like this:
XXX12XXX
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
1XX12XX2
3XX34XX4
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
XXX34XXX

With my hand size I can use my thumb and pinky to quickly get my bearings and position my other fingers accordingly.

Putting a marker five down and five over is useful too. Sometimes extreme sectioning off of the Launchpad feels constraining.

Some have large type too which can be useful as well.

I feel like texture is a secret weapon. It's given new life to my BCR2000 as well! Take that ipad!:rolleyes:

[newgreyarea]

Great idea!!
Where do we get the stickers?

Can you load a photo? Would it show up?

[foreward]

Blind people regularly use dabs of glue to mark things. Elmers works ok, superglue might be better. They also make tactile paint. A few dabs on a sticker would do.

[renderful]

I generally just use the Launchpads built in tactile cues, which are the slanted buttons in the middle. Those are good at helping to find each quadrant. They are a bit far off to get my bearings on the top row and right column of round buttons, however.

Great idea!