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The Fascinating History of UX Design: A Definitive Timeline

BY EMILY STEVENS, 2021, CarreerFoundry.com

[https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/the-fascinating-history-of-ux-design-a-definitive-timeline/]

Feng Shui

• usability can be traced back to 6,000 years ago
• refers to the spatial arrangement of objects (e.g. furniture) in relation to the flow of energy (chi)
• all about arranging your surroundings in the most optimal, harmonious or “user-friendly way”

Ergonomics

• in Ancient Greece → Hippocrates texts on form of tools and layout of workplace
• WW I / II → how to make airplane cockpits and guns easier to use

Taylorism (early 1900s)

• in industrialized factories → make human labor more efficient
• Frederick Taylor conducted extensive research into the interactions between workers and their tools, wrote “Principles of Scientific Management”
• criticised for the reduction of people to cogs in a machine (Zahnrad)

Designing for People