Designing for People

Welcome to Designing for People, where you’ll find information about human capabilities and characteristics and how people interact with the world around them. You’ll also find detailed advice to help you understand how to take a people-centred approach to design.

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Explore

Learn how to explore and understand people’s characteristics and behaviour and to bring this knowledge into specifications for designs.

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Create

Start creating designs, learning more about how the characteristics of people influence the way they think and operate.

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Evaluate

Test designs against people’s needs, evaluating their involvement as the design is refined, as well as in testing of the final product.

Teacher’s Guide

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About us

The Design 4 Real People Action Group, in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF), has been working over the past few years to support the introduction of user-centred design (UCD) into Design & Technology teaching in schools. This website is a reincarnation of CIEHF’s Ergonomics 4 Schools site and incorporates new material and a 40-page Teacher’s Guide written and designed by Rachel Benedyk and her colleagues in the Design 4 Real People Action Group. We will continue to add more information and illustrations to this site.

The CIEHF is a professional membership body for anyone with a keen interest in this fascinating discipline. Find out more.