Human Factors Research
Evidence you can design with
Human factors extends beyond body measurements into perception, attention, memory and decision-making. It explains why an interface that looks clean still produces errors, and why a warning label is ignored under time pressure.
This collection covers cognitive load and working memory limits, attention and visual search, human error and slips, situation awareness, mental models, workload measurement, and safety-critical interaction.
Findings are summarised with the research question, the result, and what it means for design — never generalised beyond what the original study measured.
Questions this research helps answer
- How much information can a user hold while completing a task?
- Which interface conditions reliably produce user error?
- How does time pressure change decision quality?
Human Factors research on DesignDex covers cognitive load, attention and visual search, human error, situation awareness, workload, safety-critical design. Part of 8 design research topics.