Every Friday at Dwellability, we like to highlight community members and their amazing stories of accomplishment…
My name is Fernando, I’m a unique problem-solver.
I love digging into customer problems, and then use technology to enhance people’s lives. I bring deep technical expertise and operational business experience to creating, optimizing and scaling products that tackle real-world problems.
Fernando’s Story
Legally blind technologist, serial entrepreneur and public speaker – Fernando is the co-founder and Chief Technology Office at Sunu, a Mexican-US and Y-combinator backed startup. Sunu is empowering independence for the visual impaired through wearable and mobile products. Fernando’s expertise is in product development with an emphasis on UX/UI design for accessibility, haptics, design thinking and user research. He’s driven five products to market and is a serial founder. Fernando is Techstars and Y-Combinator alum and regularly speaks at conferences, at top universities and at corporate about innovation for person with disabilities, inclusion and design.
Dear retail stores: stop disregarding my rights.
You’ve probably gotten a bit overwhelmed when you first encountered all signage, rules, lines, and people when you walked in to pick something up at a store. But as good citizens, we quickly learn and adapt to our new normal. As the country is battling the surge in COVID-19 cases and a side-war fueled by anti-science willful ignorance against the use face masks, social distancing and other health precautions in public spaces — people with disabilities are again being left out. Read More…
Working from home: 3 Lessons I learned from 5 years of working remotely.
There’s no doubt about it, the way we’re working and doing business has changed because rapidly evolving developments of the coronavirus pandemic. Although a lot of companies remote work processes in place, there are still many other companies and employees still navigating the turmoils of working from home. Read More…
Fernando’s Portfolio
See more of Fernando’s products and ideas…
Envisioning a world without disabilities
My passion is developing technologies that enhance our human abilities. My vision is a world where technology is an enabler, taking our abilities beyond our wildest expectations and allowing people to be more efficient, smarter and even overcome illness and disease.
- Fernando
http://www.fernandoalbertorio.com/
Cheers!
Jeff