a DaNgErOuS Design.

A dangerous design

In the field of design, there is not always success. In fact, Failure designs exist. After learned the design ergonomics, I can somehow use it as a tool to measure a design whether succeed or fail in the five areas (safety, comfort, ease of use, performance and aesthetics).

The examples which could be sometimes considered as failure design are women’ dresses. Women love beautiful dresses is a common understanding upon the human civilization. Fashion designers normally tend to show their brilliance and passion when designing a lovely dress to attractive the audience’s eyeballs. Due to these reasons, sometimes designers are too focus on the beauty but lack the genomics on one entire design. For instance, some women’ dresses look good by the audience, but they are not truly comfortable for the person to wear. Furthermore, some really bad design could even cause danger to people’s health. I’ve read some reports about women who wear a 12 inches high-hill for a certain while and get their vein pressured and been sent to emergency. Also, there are some performers who wear a fantastic dress but got themselves exposed by unaware. The well know singer Lady Gaga, who always love to wear some crazy gears when she is performing, also reported by news about the defective design of her clothing that caused her some health problem.

Accordingly, dangerous designs are produced by the lack of ergonomic concerns. Designers should not only focus on the one part of a design, instead, a well considering of design ergonomics would help designers to succeed. This also can be associated with the idea of “gestalt”, the design criticism is to view a design as a whole and try to avoid focusing on one part.