Subjective ergonomics is a logical order that reviews, assesses, and plans errands, occupations, items, conditions and frameworks and how they associate with people and their psychological capacities. It is characterized by the International Ergonomics Association as "worried about mental procedures, for example, discernment, memory, thinking, and engine reaction, as they influence cooperations among people and different components of a framework. The applicable subjects incorporate mental outstanding task at hand, dynamic, gifted execution, human-PC collaboration, human unwavering quality, work pressure and preparing as these may identify with human-framework plan." Cognitive ergonomics examines insight in work and operational settings, so as to advance human prosperity and framework execution. It is a subset of the bigger field of human components and ergonomics.

Intellectual ergonomics (some of the time known as subjective designing however this was a prior field) is a developing part of ergonomics which places specific accentuation on the examination of psychological procedures expected of administrators in present day enterprises and comparative milieus. Models incorporate analysis, remaining task at hand, circumstance mindfulness, dynamic, and arranging.