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The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback.

First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how--and why--some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

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Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed.

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Simple Natural Design Wins
Review date: 2010-06-09 Rating: 10 out of 10

I love this book -- it shows how natural simple designs always win in the end.

It gives great examples of good and horrible designs.

The Classic
Review date: 2010-05-28 Rating: 8 out of 10

This is the classic text on design. All players in the tech industry need to read this. An early quote," Each time a new technology comes along, new designers make the same horrible mistakes as their predecessors. Technologists are not noted for learning from the errors of the past. They look forward, not behind, so they repeat the same problems over and over again."

Norman spent a lot of time in Apple's early days as VP Advance Products Group, and the rest is history. A fascinating easy to read writer, he fills the book with concrete examples of horrid mis design, drawn from all around us. And he is right, present wireless devices are horrid. While reading this you will become sensitized as to how bad design permeates our life. From the huge (Chernobyl and Challenger) to the almost trivial (bathroom taps), you will start to see what he sees. Computer programs of course come in for a lot of abuse. (My favorite is the brutal treatment we receive from telco and Revenue Canada voice mail systems. Enjoy. (He has other books , Emotional Design, The Design of Future Things and Living With Complexity) By the way his website [...] is a bit of a surprise. a sample of his writing [...]

Required Reading for Everyone
Review date: 2010-05-13 Rating: 10 out of 10

This book rocks. Seriously, I think it should be required reading by all. It helps one to start to think empathically in how their design or actions could be perceived by others. A+

Light Read, Dated, but Still Applicable.
Review date: 2010-05-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

The authors of HCI, Human Computer Interface, Dix, Finlay, Abowd and Beale, recommend this book in their early chapters. The recommend was taken to heart and the book was purchased. It's a small pocket book sized tome and may be considered pertinent, but light reading. It begins humorously, but within the first two chapters, the message of the work begins to get hammered in. It'll be a new concept some, - information in the world as compared to information in the head. There's a lot of basic HMI/HCI/Human Factors type stuff as related to user interface failures and successes. It's a sort of philosophical approach to interface design ideology in layman's language with examples and analogues. Pack this book into the brief case, the back pack or whatever, and read it while at the beach, on the bus or between more detailed knowledge seeking excursions. Take a break and absorb some reflection on pertinent interface design philosophy and then jump back into the tough stuff. Yes, it's light reading. But it's valuable light reading. The message and import are worth the journey.

Product Details/Specifications

Authors:
Donald A. Norman

Recording label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
EAN: 9780465067107
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 620.82
ISBN: 0465067107
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 272
Publication date: 2002-09
Release date: 2002-09-17
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)

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