Design for success: a human-centered approach to designing successful products and systems : Rouse, W B John Wiley & Sons, New York (1991) 287 pp
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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✦ Synopsis
paper focuses on the process by which consumer products can be improved. Results showed that a well-designed interface could increase performance and reduce the learning time to use a VCR by 50%. The inclusion of human factors testing and theories is vital to any design process and can provide a powerful means by which to improve products. 23.4.47 (125273) Rouse, W B Design for success: a human-centered approach to designing successful products and systems John Wiley & Sons, New York (1991) 287 pp This book offers a comprehensive, methodological framework for the human-centred design of complex systems. This new approach to system design includes four phases -naturalist, marketing, engineering, and sales and service -which cover the entire product life cycle, including: understanding users' needs and preferences; concept and market evaluation of alternative ways to satisfy these demands; detailed design and engineering evaluation of products and systems; fielding and ongoing in-use evaluation. A variety of methods and tools are discussed within this methodological framework, and its use is illustrated with case studies of actual applications in a variety of industries. This book attempts to make human-centred design very concrete and readily applicable to practical and realistically complex design problems. Its use of methods is supported by 'howto' guidance in the form of case histories, almost 100 figures and tables, principles and guidelines to provide a 'toolbox' with which to pursue design. The material in this book is drawn from ten years of development, utilization, refinement, and extension of concepts and methods. These efforts have occurred in a variety of fields, from commercial and military aviation, the process and power industries, and manufacturing to the marine industry and communications.
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