Books : The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design (Dreyfuss Associates)
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by: Alvin R. Tilley
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.82
EAN: 9780823030316
ISBN: 0823030318
Label: Watson-Guptill Publications
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1993-12
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Sales Rank: 342783
Studio: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Product Description:
Human factors research impacts everything from the height of kitchen counters to the placement of automobile pedals to a book's type size. And in this updated and expanded version of the original landmark work, you'll find the research information necessary to create designs that better accommodate human need. Featuring more than 200 anthropometric drawings, this handbook is filled with all of the essential measurements of the human body and its relationship to the designed environment. You'll also discover guidelines for designing for children and the elderly, for the digital workplace, and for ADA compliance. Measurements are in both English and metric units.
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Rating: - Great Design Resource
This book is an excellent resource for designing products that must accomodate various shapes and sizes of people. The charts provide a useful starting point for design. Some data, however, is quite old which dilutes it's relevancy. Also, do not purchase the instant, online access to this book. There are many dimesions and small details which can't be read due to the poor resolution of the on-screen viewer.
Rating: - Numbers
As a design student this is a very useful book. It makes assignments sound great when Information in this book is referenced. The drawings are very simple and easy to understand, however it is cramped full of numbers and stats (or 'data'). So u should only be buying this book if that's what u are looking for. It covers a diverse range of human factors in design like optimal reach, grip, vision length, working temperatures, noise, radiation, lighting, ect...
This is exactly what i wanted ... Read More
Rating:  - a great reference book
I'm studying furniture design and this book will be extremely helpful for me. It gives tons and tons of measurements throughout the human life span. All kinds of positions, arrangements, etc. There is section on every age, even infants and elderly. It's also just an interesting thing to read, regardless of being an awesome reference book. I loved reading about how different abilities/capacities develop at certain ages. This way you can know when humans are able to do what. This can help better understand ... Read More
Rating:  - not the best reference for interior designers
I found a handful of pages out of this book useful for space planning. Not worth fifty bucks unless you are designing equipment and products.
Rating: - Awesome reference
There's minimal reading in this book, which is nice since it's good for reference. The reading that it does have is very simple with bulleted paragraphs full of information that you can't get from looking at the diagrams.
Great diagrams for industrial design students (I got this for one of my classes), gives you the measurements, reach, sight and motion range, pretty much any numeric info you need to know for the 1 percentile, 99 percentile, and 50 percentile man/woman.
Also has nice chart of ... Read More
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