This blog is about product design with a focus on usability and human factors. I am particularly interested in how advances in technology can improve the quality of life for people. Some great examples I’ve seen position technology as an enabler of human activity rather than the limit.
The seminal book, “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman introduced concepts of physical product design and applied them to computer interfaces. Now we can take best practices derived from research on human-computer interaction and apply them to smart products. There are unique aspects of products and systems that combine physical objects with intelligent software and this is a space for a lot of discussion and learning.
Blog Posts
- Usability Practices for Consumer Products Borrowed from Software Design
- Toggle Controls and Affordance
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