The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer

The article addresses the role of ergonomic design in product innovation. Designers meet users’ needs by developing solutions to complex trade-offs—reverse salients—between a product’s characteristics. The fundamental ergonomic design challenge in portable computers concerns the reverse salient betw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Windrum, Paul, Frenken, Koen, Green, Lawrence
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42936/