Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life (wired.com)

111 points by rexercises 8y ago ↗ HN

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DiThi 8y ago ↗

What are the units?

mysterydip 8y ago ↗

Looks like inches, feet, and pounds

datagram 8y ago ↗

The FAQ on the Kickstarter page says it has both metric and imperial units.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iacollaborative/reissue...

telesilla 8y ago ↗

The reference manual itself is fascinating:

http://design.data.free.fr/RUCHE/documents/Ergonomie%20Henry...

kwhitefoot 8y ago ↗

Thank you for finding that. It really is fascinating. Mind you most of the numbers need updating :-)

U.S. 50. %tile weight is now 194.7 lb not 161.9 lb and I suspect that the 97.5 %tile is even worse (but a cursory search didn't find any data).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight#By_country

mattlondon 8y ago ↗

Amazing - thanks.

I thought the reliability statistics for the different dial types was fascinating.

seliopou 8y ago ↗

Available for pre-order but neither the article, nor the product's website, has a ship date estimate.

patchorang 8y ago ↗

The Kickstarter says December 2017.

jweir 8y ago ↗

This reminds me of this article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287

How in WWII a statistician noticed there are no average sized humans and the dangers of building for a mythical average.

artur_makly 8y ago ↗

omg - THATS what that double-tap feature was for?!? i always thought it was a bug.

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