Designing Pleasurable Products by Patrick W Jordan

Designing Pleasurable Products by Patrick W Jordan

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Zusammenfassung

An understanding of human factors is increasingly playing a role in the product design. This book argues that such approaches are - in practice, if not by intention - dehumanising. It explains how good designs can appeal to the user holistically, leading to products that are a joy to own and use.

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Designing Pleasurable Products by Patrick W Jordan

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.
Jordan; Patrick W. The Contemporary Trends Institute, London, UK,
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ISBN 13 9780748408443
ISBN 10 0748408444
Titel Designing Pleasurable Products
Autor Patrick W Jordan
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Verlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2000-04-27
Seitenanzahl 224
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