Human Factors Design Handbook

This is a great overview of many, many human factors elements. A designer should keep in mind the populations that the data is pulled from, as many are highly fit military enlistees, much stronger than the general baby-boomer population!

I used this book every day when I was in college. I am sure you know books like the human scale, which are very good,but I found this to have a lot more detail on well every thing. And to get all the human scales it costs a pretty penny (been out of print forever). I would say if you are an ID (product designer) or student get this book right away!

Although its starting to be outdated its still a valuable reference and most of the data should still be helpful well into the future.Some data is a rehash of MIL-STD-1472, but still presents it well. It also uses other unique or less known data sources.

This book was is listed as Human Factors Design Handbook by Woodson, but while the cover is for that book the inside contents are for Time Saver Standards for Urban Design by Watson. Not helpful.

This book is huge. It covers the complete topic. I hope to read it cover to cover, but it will take a while. Enjoy...

Very happy!

First ed was the BIBLE back in the early 90s for all the HF Majors at USAFA. I remember getting this for Christmas my Junior year and being stoked because you could never get a copy from the library... "Woodsen" just popped up in a conversation with my old roomate, so I jumped on Amazon to see what the latest version was. Good memories indeed!

As a Human Factors professional that owns the 1st addition, shortly after purchasing this version (2nd edition), I questioned my wisdom.This book is about 200 pages shy of the original and not surprisingly repeats many of the same information as it's predecessor. Unfortunately, it gives us little more than dated information with a bit of new stuff tacked on.What really dissappointed me was that the anthropometric data that is provided here, dates back to that of the original's 1960's data. What is the point of a new edition? The census data stated here is so dated it is ridiculous, both in composition as well as age. I wish I had known that this data was not updated prior to my investing in the new edition. I would not have purchased it.I question the usefulness of data published in so recent a book based primarily on Air force personnel of the 60s. That type of data had it's day & was appropriate at it's original publishing. Today's Human Factors professional needs more diversified data that is more international in it's scope. For that matter, I'm certain 1960s air force personnel (who are screened for height and weight) hardly represent the year 2000 demographics of the United States much better.I found it interesting that the same graphics that may have been the best you could do in the original were repeated in this new document. Couldn't they refresh some of the look, clean up some of the old graphs. As the original was, this document is a mix of font styles, graphics and inconsistent data presentation. Does this truly represent the user of the document well? I recognize presentation is not "everything" but on a second pass of the same information you could dress it a bit better at least.The major addition predictably is the data surrounding workstations and computer usage, however, I'm questioning it's usefulness relative to the anthropometric data also here. Is this new data based on aged human measurement data too? Will it only fit the 1960 US air force man and woman?I think this book would have been better printed as an addendum to the original version costing about $25. This way the workstation data could be added plus any items that are new.

...but I got it at an unbelieveable priceEpson - TOO expensive ...that's why people go for some compatibles.It Epson prices were more circumspect there would be no need for so-called compatibles