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

Patrick W.Jordan (Author)
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More than ever, designers and technologists are considering human factors in the product design process. Users are now seen as key to the overall look and usability of products, not just passive. If a task can be accomplished with a reasonable degree of efficiency and comfort, then the product fits the user. The author, a leader in cognitive ergonomics, also argues that in practice these approaches can be dehumanizing. People are more than physical and cognitive processors. They have hopes, fears, dreams, and values; indeed these are the very things that make us human. Designing Pleasurable Products looks both at and beyond usability, considering how products can be both ergonomic and a joy to own.

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Jordan; Patrick W. The Contemporary Trends Institute, London, UK,

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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
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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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understanding of how people use products, but also of the wider role that products play in people's lives. &quote;
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If the contribution of human factors is simply to enhance usability, then it will come to be seen as a problem-solving discipline, rather than as a discipline that is positively increasing the market value of the products to which it contributes. &quote;
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pleasure can be thought of both as the elimination of, or absence of, pain and also as the provision of positive, joyful feelings. &quote;
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