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People use your product and assemble, move, and store it. If someone cannot interact with your product, with or without the manual, they may consider your product a failure. Designing in the ability for an individual to use your product properly is the art of considering human factors.

Human factors and hardware and software elements of your product are the three main considerations within system reliability. Every interaction with a person has design considerations that, done well, create an easy and enjoyable product to use.

From the design of knurls on buttons or handles to the location of the power switch, from the enclosure size to the location of lift handles, from screen brightness to the size of on-screen text, and an amazing array of elements of a product requires consideration of how a person will use or misuse your product.

Let's discuss some basic elements of human factors, where you can find more information to improve your design, and how to gather relevant information to enhance your product. Human factors done well improve your product's reliability performance. While I'm not a human factors design expert, I've learned a few things over the years.

Bring your questions and favorite human factor tips, best practices, and disasters for this fun, interactive event.

This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 9 October 2018.

Fundamentals of Human FactorsFred Schenkelberg

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