Edition: Doubleday/Currency ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Broadway Business
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780385267748ISBN:0385267746
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Edition: 3rd Paperback Edition
Binding: Paper
Publisher: MIT Press, London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780262640374ISBN:0262640376
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002-09-18
ISBN-13:9780465067107ISBN:0465067107
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780262640374ISBN:0262640376
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Date Published: 1990-02-01
ISBN-13:9780385267748ISBN:0385267746
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Date Published: 1990-02-01
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"The book gives many examples of bad design and why. I think the book is better at describing what is wrong, than in its suggestions. Some parts of the book seems a little dated, especially with the revolution of the web and electronics the last few years."
"This classic book on design is only slightly showing its age. Anyone who has ever gotten stuck in a doorway wondering whether to push or pull the door or who has accidentally hung up on someone on a multi-line phone knows the pain of bad design. But we've been conditioned to believe that if we can't figure out how to work something, it must be our fault. Donald Norman tells us that no, it is not our fault, that many everyday things are poorly designed and not made with the user in mind. Using concrete examples from daily experience, Norman builds a case for "emotional design", or design that takes peoples needs and states of being into account when designing, rather than just designing something with the most options or the biggest buttons. A great read for designers, this book is also interesting for lay-people."
"Do not read this book. It will forever make you walk around pointing out the lack of simple "affordances" in everyday objects. When you have to read a sign to figure out how to open a door, when you borrow a friends car and can't be sure the lights are going to shut off, when you wave your hands under a faucet that has no clear on/off/hot/cold controls, only to find the hidden footpedal or cleverly-integrated button-- you'll scornfully think "the designer probably won an award for that," and start planning a letter to the designer on why their product sucks from a user standpoint."
"For all who look at a toaster and marvel at its design, this is a delightful book. How does the designer work? asks Norman. From his store of study and observation he distills seven simple principles for turning difficult tasks into simple ones. 1. "use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head" that belongs to those for whom you design; 2. "simplify the structure of tasks" you ask users to undertake; 3. "make things visible" to bridge the gap between Execution and Evaluation; 4. "get the mappings right"; 5. "exploit the power of constraints, both natural and artificial" (as I like to say, gravity is our earliest guide); 6. "design for error" (what can be done, what can go wrong, will); 7. "when all else fails, standardize". Good design makes easy a series of simple and more complicated transactions between a designer's model of a thing, the system designed, and the user's model of the thing designed. To design well the designer must understand the thing but even more importantly the users of the thing. Improved design are improvements in understanding."
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