Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Inspiring Ways to Design and Clean (12 Feb 2006) The cultural and historical themes that shaped older people's lives affect how designers conceive of products. For instance, although housework is becoming an increasingly shared activity, cleaning products are overwhelmingly targeted towards women; and during their design, the user is almost always confi gured as female. Another recurring theme is “labor savings.” Often new technologies have unwittingly increased time spent doing housework rather than decreased it. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://ambidextrousmag.org/preview/issue2/pages16-17.pdf Read 9 more articles from Ambidextrous Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Interaction Modeling - User State-Trace Analysis          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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