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The Industrial Design and the Human Factors Time Zones
The process of human factor time zones was conceptualized by Lill John
and Fred Vierheller,
SolidMaster's
CEO over years of development in the mechanical, medical
and motorcycles product fields. It is based upon the recognition that
various people using a product at different times have different modes,
needs and requirements.
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The process of time zones can be divided into two types: Firstly the
chronological process or the haphazard process. The chronological
process analyzes not only the specific HF time zone, but the transition
between these two events. The haphazard process needs to look at these
possible HF time zone transitions in a non chronological process which
has additive layers for product state, user and multi zone transition
points.
Based on the complete HF time zone structure there is now a specific
product now described. How this happens is now an interaction of human
factors and implementation elements:
industrial design and mechanical engineering.
This process is to create mock-ups of possible solutions to these zones
in physical and/or software form. Then to test them with all the
potential user ergonomic and demographic types happens while observing
success and failure of ideas. For more complex and multiple zones
typically a mock-up for each zone may be important. Then after the first
initial study is done one can see where one mock-up may work for all or
many of the zones. The next artful requirement is to look at the various
HF zones and transition states to see if the mock-ups are similar
between states or understand the differences and see what synthesis can
take place to create a logical solution that does not interfere with
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