Ergonomics example

Today in my blog I would like to bring you an example, which was a great ergonomics design in a sport called waterpolo and two another devices that were designed by Playstation then became disasters.


Before 1956, waterpolo was played with leather ball, which was really slippery and ugly. It was almost impossible to grab it, so players had to hold it from the bottom.[1]
After 1956 Olympic, there was a guy called James R. Smith, who redesigned and introduced the new official ball, which was made of a rubber fabric. It improved the performance and the speed of the game, also the ball was not stinky after using it for a while.[2] Maybe it does not sound that big of an invention, but I think many sports was much faster and enjoyable after forgetting leather balls.

The wrong example is really funny. Actually, I brought two of them. I can’t believe what was the plan of these designers. Jogcon, [3] was invented to help people at 3d racing games, because there were no cursors on controllers at that time. Now we know, it was broken and became a disaster really fast.
The second one is called Soul controller, [4] which was designed for games like Soulcalibur, to make the game more fun. However, if we take a look at the “controller”, we can see many problems regarding this. That time, there were no gyroscope and move detectors, so the whole controller was just redesigned, placing the buttons in an unbelievably wrong place.

However, I think without trying we can never have good products. After a bad idea, the market can learn and never make the same mistake. It is important to have ergonomics disasters, not just useful ones.

I hope you enjoyed my writing for this week!

Dominik Kovacs

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