| Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factors Contributor(s): Jordan, Patrick W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415298873 ISBN-13: 9780415298872 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $74.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Science - Reference |
| Dewey: 745.2 |
| Series: Introduction to the New Human Factors |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.18" W x 9.34" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |