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Goals of Human Factors Engineering

  • Safety: Reducing the risk of injury and death
  • Performance: Increasing productivity, quality, and efficiency
  • Satisfaction: Increasing acceptance, comfort, and well-being

Process of Human Factors Engineering (Human Centered Design)

Human-centered design process can be simplified into three major phases: understand users, create a prototype, and evaluate the prototype. (Iterative)

This has to be done from the early stage of the design. Because even when designers attempt to consider human factors, they often complete the product design first and only then hand off the blueprint or prototype to a human factors expert to evaluate.

Task Analysis

Task analysis is a broad term that encompasses many other techniques such as use cases, user stories, and user journeys. All of these techniques focus on understanding

  • Why - users’ goals and motivations
  • What - the tasks and subtasks to achieve these goals
  • When - the ordering and timing of these tasks
  • Where - and the location and situation
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