ABSTRACT
Various technical objects, such as machines, technical devices, vehicles, tools, objects of daily use, appliances, buildings, to name a few, are constructed to satisfy certain needs, that is why they should fulfill certain functions for which there is demand. Transforming these functions into the language of technology, an engineer usually chooses only those elements that can be treated as parameters characteristic for the future construction. For a crane they would be: hoisting capacity, jib range, height of hoisting, motion speed; for a vehicle: permissible load, maximum speed, kind of fuel, braking distance; for a machine tool: speed and capacity of machine cutting, kind of processed material and tools used, feed speed, dimensions of the article processed, and the level of automation. That is the kind of language traditionally used by an engineer. It is easy to notice that they are strictly technical terms, completely dehumanized. In those instances, man appears only at further stages of the designing process as a factor restricting liberty of the construction process, imposing the necessity of taking into account such factors as work safety and comfort. That selection of the technical functions from the general function results in the designer losing from his range of vision, of which he may not be aware, the most important functions and features, vital for adjusting the technical object to man. With reference to a technical object, any loss or reduction of its basic function, which is to serve people, is a result of too simplified and narrow perception of the designing process and as such should be treated as destructive anachronism.
