“In a world where consumers have so much power, we now have two responsibilities:

• If you don’t like what an organization stands for, work actively to spread the word and force them to change

• If you will miss a product, a service, a book, a site or a professional when they close up shop, stand up, speak up and bring them masses of new business.”

The same is true in relation to Ergonomics, if we continue to support products and services that do not accomodate our Ergonomic requirements we are effectively announcing that it doesn’t matter to us that using such products is unsafe, inefficient, unpleasant or demoralising. 

Through Real World Design we wish to highlight the importance of Ergonomics and also provide you with a platform to highlight products or services that you feel are letting you down in terms of their usability, safety and comfort. Equally, we also wish to promote products and services that you think are making things better.

Use the ‘Comments‘ link or our Facebook Group to speak up!

We're growing the Real World Design Site With Your Help

As advocates of human centred design, we are passionate about hearing your views on both site content and design.  We truly want this site to be pleasurable and interesting to use and navigate. We also hope that these values will be reflected in the exhibition we are designing for you and which will open in November 2009 at the Design Museum. If at any time you see that we are not fulfilling these aims for you then we’d be delighted to hear from you.

Changes in the site that we have implemented today in response to your feedback:

• Reduced the size of the logo image at the top of the page.
• Injected some more colour into the site, specifically into the navigation bar on the left.
• Restructured the navigation bar and moved it up to the top of the page to make it easier to use.
• Introduced the ‘tag-cloud’ to allow you search for posts by keyword simply by clicking one of them, this feature also allows you a quick overview of the emergent themes of the site.
• Renewed commitment to include more pictures in the posts and make our writing ever more incisive. 
• More external links, which we will continue to include to sites that we think will help you understand more about Ergonomics and Human-Centred Design. If you know of any good links you think we should include or you have a site that is about Ergonomics and Human Factors and you want us to link to it just get in touch.

Thanks very much again for your help in making this site better!

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Give us some feedback on our website, comment on the posts from our blog and be first in line for the latest Real World Design news. Why not also tell us what the word Ergonomics means to you?

You could also tell you friends about us and ask them for their opinion!

We look forward to hearing from you.