Ergonomics
Product design ergonomics research how people interact with products and how to optimize those interactions to make them more efficient and comfortable. In the case of Product Design, it can involve everything from how people hold and use a product, to how easy it is to access and use its various features and controls in a fast but safe manner.
Customer Experience (CX) vs User Experience (UX) in Product Design
Designers: do you know the difference between customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) design? While this could be the learning of a full life, here are some basics. The impact that understanding the two distinct yet interconnected concepts...
Forms Follow Function … in Product Design Especially
"Forms Follow Function" is an old key design concept that started in architecture in the mid of the XX's. Modern product design, so as value analysis and ergonomics on one side, and modern CAD system ability to design almost...
Ikea Parody: the Ergonomics Lesson
An ergonomics lesson usually provided by an Ikea video, promoting their paper catalog (the "bookbook™") is fantastic from many points of view. It became viral because of making fun of Apple product introduction. It could also be a self-mockery...
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