The design of consumer products has a central role in its potential for contributing to a healthier living and working space. However, too often consumers are only aware of the designers' role when bad practice manifestly exacerbates the easy application of basic functionality.

Contributors. Foreword. Preface. 1. Product Design with People in Mind. Part One. Methods in Product Design. 2. Ergonomics Methods in Consumer Product Design and Evaluation. 3. Evaluation of Product Safety using the BeSafe Method. 4. A System Analysis of Consumer Products. 5. Ergonomics and the Evaluation of Consumer Products: Surveys of Evaluation Practices. Part Two. Institutions Involved in Design and Evaluation of Consumer Products. 6. Application of Ergonomics and Consumer Feedback to Product Design at Whirlpool. 7. Consumer Products - More by Accident than Design? 8. Enhancing the Quality of Use: Human Factors at Philips. 9. Consumer Product Evaluation: Which Method is Best? A Guide to Human Factors at Consumers' Association. Part Three. Guidance on and Examples of Product Design. 10. Developing an Qualitative Sense. 11. Applying Ergonomics Methods during the Industrial Design of Consumer Products. 12. Design of Hand-Operated Devices. 13. Development of Comprehensible Warning Symbols for Use on Child-Care Products. 14. Towards Consumer Product Interface Design Guidelines. Part Four. Key Topics. 15. Key Topics in Consumer Products. Appendix. Author Index. Subject Index. People in Mind. Part One. Methods in Product Design. 2. Ergonomics Methods in Consumer Product Design and Evaluation. 3. Evaluation of Product Safety using the BeSafe Method. 4. A System Analysis of Consumer Products. 5. Ergonomics and the Evaluation of Consumer Products: Surveys of Evaluation Practices. Part Two. Institutions Involved in Design and Evaluation of Consumer Products. 6. Application of Ergonomics and Consumer Feedback to Product Design at Whirlpool. 7. Consumer Products - More by Accident than Design? 8. Enhancing the Quality of Use: Human Factors at Philips. 9. Consumer Product Evaluation: Which Method is Best? A Guide to Human Factors at Consumers' Association. Part Three. Guidance on and Examples of Product Design. 10. Developing an Qualitative Sense. 11. Applying Ergonomics Met