Endpapers from first edition of Designing for People Designer: Henry Dreyfuss Drawings by Alvin Tilley 1955 Dreyfuss Collection Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Dreyfuss's many enduring professional relationships resulted in superior products that were designed to serve a broad range of consumers and avoid short-term solutions. Today, the need for such "directors"--design professionals capable of straddling the worlds of business and design--is almost universally acknowledged within the industrial design profession, and Dreyfuss's work continues to serve as a model of interdisciplinary teamwork. The common link running through all of Dreyfuss's projects was his overriding concern for the user. Through a variety of projects, including consulting for the U.S. military on equipment and vehicles, Dreyfuss pioneered anthropometrics--the codification of human dimensions in industrial design. The Dreyfuss team developed "Joe" and "Josephine," "typical" American models that were used in the design of airline seating, forklifts, power tools, and other utilitarian objects. Human factors--reach, grasp, and the many other physical and mental aspects of using an object--have become a key component of the industrial design process and profession since Dreyfuss published the first charts in his autobiography Designing for People (1955). [ Intro | New York Central | Bell Telephone | Deere & Co. | Polaroid | Honeywell | Human Factors ] © Copyright 1997 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution