Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factors [Paperback]

Patrick W. Jordan (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (Aug 22 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415298873
ISBN-13: 978-0415298872
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 15.7 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 481 g

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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.

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Looks beyond the current usability model of products design to capture a more holistic view of human appreciation for certain products, providing a practical framework of the four pleasures and describing several different design techniques. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What an interesting take on Design and Trends, Mar 13 2002

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Read this book if you aren't lucky enough like me to be the Teaching Assistant to Pat Jordan's Designing Pleasurable Products class. An incredibly smart designer and man who conveys so much in one book! Smart purchase

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