Mid-century designers participated in a wide-array of practices, all of which ultimately supplemented their viewpoints and work. Their expansive ways of teaching can show us how design in our world is an ecosystem of products working together and riffing off of each other’s features. It’s not enough for a product to be stylistically pleasing; functionality…
Ruth Bhavsar – Midcentury Designers
The Eames couple, Gerstner, and Sutnar were pioneers of Interaction Design techniques, and their work spanned a wide array of disciplines. All of them put the user and usability at the center of their work, and made integral breakthroughs when combining form and function. Ray and Charles Eames designed and iterated a prolific amount of…
Human Factors in Design
Dreyfuss published The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design; He pioneered the idea of human factors affecting design. Dreyfus learned about people, their tendencies, their reservations, their ambitions, and their unbridled passions. He used functional through products that people interact with. Discovering opportunities for rapid innovation is understanding “people,” not “users.” Thus a sound…
