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.
Thanks to all of you out there who have given us feedback as part of our early user testing of the website, as you might have noticed we have implemented many of your ideas and suggestions already. This was always the plan with this site, for it to grow with the project and be directly influenced by feedback provided by you the users.
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!
Let us know what you think of the blog. Much like our exhibition we want you to find it easy to use and full of content that you find interesting. If at any point we aren’t delivering this just politely remind us, using the comments form on the blog, the discussion board on our Facebook group or via twitter.
