Description
The article discusses how human factors is being recognized as more than just usability. There are different ways to approach designing products to make them more enjoyable for the user.
The last five years have seen a major paradigm shift in the role of human factors in product design. Previously this was seen as pertaining almost exclusively to product usability, but new recognition is being given to "pleasure-based" human factors. Jordon and Green provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in human factors approaches to consumer products consisting of specially invited contributions from leading practitioners in both industry and academia.