Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factors - Hardcover

Jordan, Patrick W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748408444 ISBN 13: 9780748408443

Publisher: CRC Press, 2000

Synopsis

Human factors considerations are increasingly being incorporated into the product design process. Users are seen more as being important factors in the overall look and usability of products than just as passive users. We are now treated as cognitive and physical components of the person/product system. The author, who is one of the leading lights in the field of cognitive ergonomics, looks at approaches that assume that if a task can be accomplished with a reasonable degree of efficiency and within acceptable levels of comfort, then the product can be seen as fitting to the user. In this book it is argued that in practice these approaches can be dehumanizing. People are more than merely physical and cognitive processors. They have hopes, fears, dreams, values and aspirations, indeed these are the very things that make us human.
Designing Pleasurable Products looks both at and beyond usability, considering how products can appeal to use holistically, leading to products that are a joy to own.

About this title

About the Author:

Jordan; Patrick W. The Contemporary Trends Institute, London, UK,

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748408444
• ISBN 13: 9780748408443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224