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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald A. Norman
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we try to figure out the shower control in a hotel or attempt to navigate an unfamiliar television set or stove. When The Design of Everyday Things was published in 1988, cognitive scientist Don Norman provocatively proposed that the fault lies not in ourselves, but in design that ignores the needs an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262525671
ISBN-10: 0262525674
Publication Date: 1/10/2014
Pages: 368
Edition: revised and expanded
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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This is one of my all-time favorite non-fiction books, written by a cognitive science professor at my alma mater. Some of the ideas he's come up with seem so obvious and helpful that you wonder why, in the years since he's written the book, the poor designs he specifically pointed out still exist in our society. For example, doors should not have to be labeled "push" or "pull". The kind of handle on the door should look like something you would either only push or only pull. Read the book and you will see what he's talking about.


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