This collection of movies provide an entertaining, and a potentially useful, complement to the textbook “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering“. The films show examples of human factors design concepts in...
Driver distraction is one reason why the US lags the rest of the world in driving safety. The US has one of the worst safety records of any developed nation either by fatality per kilometer traveled...
The book “Designing for People: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering” contains many Human Factors engineering concepts from the broad areas of: Design and evaluation techniques Cognitive characteristics of people Physical characteristics of people...
"Nokia and Blackberry were skating to where the puck was going to be…while Apple and Google were…switching the game to water-skiing" https://t.co/vtYvbN6J1t — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 1, 2017
Red-light camera grace period goes from 0.1 to 0.3 seconds, Chicago to lose $17M | Ars Technica. Milliseconds matter https://t.co/caYIjMG2s5 — John Lee (@Jdlee888) March 24, 2017 Red light cameras can save lives, but...
TIL: Microsoft has an *incredible* corpus on inclusive design + accessibility. This is really great material:https://t.co/qiDaoPrw2w pic.twitter.com/0fCLsg1eGy — Justin Duke (@justinmduke) April 2, 2017
Oh No! Preference for Latex doesn't translate into writing performance, particularly for those who prefer debugging code to communicating. https://t.co/NnaEhM2AbE — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 5, 2017
"Users aren’t machines, and they don’t always act in the most efficient manner possible, even when it would be beneficial to everyone." https://t.co/uhdE8OwXU6 — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 7, 2017
Amazing design: both the product and packaging pic.twitter.com/qeAfRGxlLH — John Lee (@Jdlee888) May 14, 2017 A counter example is GoPro, which arrives with batteries that need to be charged before use.
Leuchtturm notebook design is "thorough down to the last detail"https://t.co/tUWMGygjTl pic.twitter.com/l6AYKWBpen — John Lee (@Jdlee888) June 1, 2017 Most objects that work well because designers attended to details so that those elements of the...