- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (27 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0748408444
- ISBN-13: 978-0748408443
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.1 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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.
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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Jordan; Patrick W. The Contemporary Trends Institute, London, UK,
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was interesting introduction to the different types of pleasures that could be taken into consideration when designing products for everyday use.
With the background in interaction architecture of web services, I found this book partially useful and mainly interesting. The book was useful in the sense of gaining terms for describing different types of pleasures (involved when using products) and the hierarchy of them. Also the chapter with comprehensive structure of people characteristics will probably help in mapping the characteristics of people (or determining the target group) who use whatever products or services.
This book is written from the industrial design point of view, but with good will and slight tuning of thought it may be useful for other design disciplines as well.
The paperback edition is equal to the hardcover, the content and chapters are same, only cover is different.
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What an interesting take on Design and Trends
13 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
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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