Quotes About Ergonomics

The newer arrangement requires less jumping back and forth from row to row; with the QWERTY keyboard, a good typists' fingertips travel more than twelve miles a day, jumping from row to row. These unnecessary intricate movements cause mental tension, typist fatigue, and lead to more typographical errors.

was just very compact, not much larger than a standard wardrobe. But it was a marvel of ergonomics. It included

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.

I have very bad posture.

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.

Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

There's no such thing as a dumb user. … There are only dumb products.

Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user's limits, the thing you're designing, and how people will ideally use that thing.

Appearance is stressed far too much in workplace design. What is more relevant is whether the workplace lets you work or inhibits you.

Economics is how people utilize available resources and save the economy from overspending. Ergonomics is how people electrocute themselves in spending and abuse the economy by overusing available resources.

The room inside is definitely the biggest plus of the car. Your head is not anywhere near the (roll) bars, like it's sitting against the bars in the other (current) cars.

He set in place a system whereby every area of performance was explored. The idea was that if small percentage improvements were made in numerous areas – diet, psychology, aerodynamics, ergonomics – the cumulative improvement would be substantial. In a nutshell, if you did every little thing right then almost without noticing you could achieve something big.

There is NO such thing as an Ergonomic (device) anything. I could give the best Ergonomic tool / device in the world and if you use it wrong, you will probably get worse.

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

Prolonged sitting can cause stiffness in your lower back.

Why do we need to know about the human mind? Because things are designed to be used by people, and without a deep understanding of people, the designs are apt to be faulty, difficult to use, difficult to understand.

One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.