You probably recognize designer Olof Bäckström’s classic orange-handled scissors. The company that makes them, Fiskars, claims to have sold over a billion worldwide, so there’s a good chance you have ...

Ergonomic chairs. Ergonomic remote controls. It's a word bandied about to imply good design, and is celebrated in a new exhibition at London's Design Museum. But what's it all about? It's time for a ...

Anthropometric data—comprising systematic measurements of human body dimensions—plays a pivotal role in the formulation of ergonomic design. This field of research underpins the development of ...