Colour Memories is the result of a self-initiated brief in which I investigated how the daily lives of partially sighted and blind people could be improved, through providing a greater sense of freedom and independence. By talking to my dad, who is himself blind, as well as members of the charity Somerset Sight I discovered that many sufferers of sight loss are worried about losing their sense of colour as their vision becomes less saturated. Colour Memories is an app that aims to help negate this issue. Many sufferers of sight loss are able to remember specific colours from memories in the past e.g. my dad can still remember the exact green colour of a lake from a holiday to India 30 years ago. As a result, Colour Memories aims to utilise this by allowing users to assign a ‘memory image’ to a specific colour. For example, a picture of a sunset could represent orange. When users then take a picture on the app it matches the average colour of the ‘taken image’ to the corresponding ‘memory image’. This then helps the user to understand what colour the object they have just taken a picture of is, despite not being able to see it, as they know it is the same as their memory.