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Physical Ergonomics

Fitting products and spaces to people’s bodies: their reach, strength, posture and movement.

What is Physical Ergonomics?

Fitting products and spaces to people’s bodies: their reach, strength, posture and movement.

What you learn

Design for the smallest and largest people, not the average.

When it helps

a design assumes everyone can reach, see or handle the same things.

Use it at work

  1. Find the range of people who will use it, smallest to largest.
  2. Design reach and height for the smallest.
  3. Design space and clearance for the largest.
  4. Test with people at both ends.

Your output

Check one physical touchpoint of your product: can the shortest and tallest users reach it, see it and use it?

Watch for

Designing for an average body.

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