Ergonomics
When designing you must always keep in mind that it must fit the person it is designed for. Adults and children come in different shapes and sizes. Ergonomics is the application of a set of average sizes of humans to the design of products. Whatever you design must fit the person who will use it. For example, if you are to designing a jewellery box you may need to collect statistics regarding the size of hands. If you are designing a chair you will need to work out the average comfortable seating height. Designers look at ergonomics in order to make things easier for people to use.

What should you consider?
When designing you should consider the shape, weight, height and width of your product. Ergonomics and anthropometrics will provide you with the data to do this. You should also consider the environment in which the product will be used in. You will then need to consider light, smell, noise, moisture and the temperature of the environment that your product will be used in. What ergonomics should you consider within graphics that go on your products?

Graphic ergonomic considerations:-

Lettering
Look at the lettering examples below one is easy to read the other is quite hard to read from an ergonomic point of view. So it is important that you make your letting quick and easy to read for your posters, adverts and product packaging.

Font style
You must also choose a type that is easy to read for its function. For example an elaborate font would not be suitable for a fire extinguisher.

Colour
Within your graphics you must ensure that the colour contract is easy to read. This is a very important ergonomic factor. The text must have contrast in order to be read easily. Also a small minority of the population are red/green colour blind.

Anthropometrics
Anthropometrics are concerned with the appliance of ergonomics to the human form and are used to explain the user or target range for your product. Anthropometric data is displayed within a table format. It shows the average measurements of the human form. ‘Anthropo’ means ‘human’ and ‘metrics’ means ‘measurements’.