Human Factors in Design

Human Factors has two main objectives

To enhance the effectiveness and efficiency with which work and other activities are carried out. E.g. increased convenience of use, reduced errors, and increased productivity.

To enhance certain desirable human values, including improved safety reduced fatigue and stress, increased comfort, greater user acceptance, increased job satisfaction, and improved quality of life.

Human Factors: Human factors discovers and applies information about human behaviour, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use.

Human Factors

Is not just applying checklists and guidelines

Is not using oneself as the model for designing things

Is not just common sense

Taken from "Human Factors in Engineering And Design" by Mark S. Sanders and Ernest J. McCormick

Uttarayan at IIT

14th January is celebrated as MakarSankranti across India. Oh let me be a little simple. It's kite festival. We fly kites for the whole day and enjoy a lot. Entire sky is covered with kites of different sizes, shapes and colors. And in Ahmedabad, the place from where I am, it's totaly different environment. People come to their terraces with food snacks and ofcourse kites and spend the entire day over there. Music is played, kites are flown, chikki, mamra laddoo are eaten and fultoo enjoyment is done. And as if one day is short Amdavadis celebrate "Vaasi Uttarayan" that is 15th January is also sequeled in the celebrations.

I missed all these enjoyment of Ahmedabad while in IIT. So what IITians are also not nerds. They too organized a kite festival. I went there at 4 in evening and flew kites. The thrill is in making the kite fly without any air and once it's high up in the sky dodging with other kite. There is a war between all the kites in sky as if some dog-fight of fighter planes is going on.

Late in night we had "Lohri" celebrated in hostel 8. It was kinda campfire.

ICOGRADA at IDC

IDC is organizing an international level event, ICOGRADA Design week at IDC, IIT Mumbai .
ICOGRADA is International Council of Graphic Design Associations and is a world apex body of graphic designers and visual communicators.

Being a part of this event I can say that it is going to be very lively and informative.
More information can be found at www.designlocal.net

Back to IDC

After a long and unforgettable vacation at my home I'm back in IDC for new sets of assignments and thrills. I had a very wonderful vacation with so many things touching in my life and coming back here I was little reluctant. Anyways life's like that.