A short history of modern comfort -- An architecture of comfort -- The bathroom -- The flush toilet -- Heating -- Easy seats -- Convenience furniture -- The first celebrity sofa -- The invention of interior decoration -- The bedroom -- The boudoir -- Dressing for comfort -- The …
A critically acclaimed historian of France and French culture identifies the moment in modern history when informality and comfort first became priorities, causing a sudden transformation in the worlds of architecture and interior decoration that would last for centuries.
A critically acclaimed historian of France and French culture identifies the moment in modern history when informality and comfort first became priorities, causing a sudden transformation in the worlds of architecture and interior decoration that would last for centuries. Today …
Section I. Context -- section II. Frameworks and tools -- section III. Moving forward.
Bridge the gap between business and design to improve the customer experience Businesses thrive when they can engage customers. And, while many companies understand that design is a powerful tool for engagement, they do not have the vocabulary, tools, and processes that are requ…
Biographical note: Uta Brandes is a professor of design research and gender and design at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD). Description for reader: Jointly published with the Board of International Research in Design. Diese Publikation erforscht und analysiert…
This publication explores a very special kind of design-the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses.
Handbook of human factors and ergonomics
This is the fourth edition of the market-leading reference for human factors and ergonomics researchers, academics, and professionals. Editor Gavriel Salvendy, a well-known and respected authority, has assembled the top thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world to upd…
Defining design as specifying an artifact, rather than, for example, actually making it, Visser offers a new theoretical framework for cognitive design research.