The Design of Everyday Things
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465067107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I wanted to like this book" according to Garrett Mccutcheon. I wanted to like this book. The ideas were solid, and the principles timeless. But the presentation was an exercise in poor design choices, and the book is simply dated. The examples given are barely relevant, and in a few more years, many of the examples will be entirely unintelligible to a young audience.The author pushes a design paradigm that can be summarized as follows:1. Make interaction simple, visible, and intuitive2. Give users feedback to determine if their actions have produced the desired effectI wanted to like this book I wanted to like this book. The ideas were solid, and the principles timeless. But the presentation was an exercise in poor design choices, and the book is simply dated. The examples given are barely relevant, and in a few more years, many of the examples will be entirely unintelligible to a young audience.The author pushes a design paradigm that can be summarized as follows:1. Make interaction simple, visible, and intuitive2. Give users feedback to determine if their actions have produced the desired effect3. Make mistakes easily correctable or entirely avoidableI wanted to like this book Garrett Mccutcheon I wanted to like this book. The ideas were solid, and the principles timeless. But the presentation was an exercise in poor design choices, and the book is simply dated. The examples given are barely relevant, and in a few more years, many of the examples will be entirely unintelligible to a young audience.The author pushes a design paradigm that can be summarized as follows:1. Make interaction simple, visible, and intuitive2. Give users feedback to determine if their actions have produced the desired effect3. Make mistakes easily correctable or entirely avoidable4. Force. . Force. . Make mistakes easily correctable or entirely avoidableI wanted to like this book Garrett Mccutcheon I wanted to like this book. The ideas were solid, and the principles timeless. But the presentation was an exercise in poor design choices, and the book is simply dated. The examples given are barely relevant, and in a few more years, many of the examples will be entirely unintelligible to a young audience.The author pushes a design paradigm that can be summarized as follows:1. Make interaction simple, visible, and intuitive2. Give users feedback to determine if their actions have produced the desired effect3. Make mistakes easily correctable or entirely avoidable4. Force. . Force. "Great High-Level Thinking" according to Peter Chen. The book condition and seller were great.The book itself provided great perspective and challenges the reader to look at everyday things from a good/bad design point of view. Norman also gives design guidelines (e.g., natural mappings, visibility, feedback etc) that the reader can focus on an implement when designing.The book was not so good in terms of organization and consistency. Ironically the book is about good design, but the layout is lacking. First level headings are in Initial caps and aligned right, while second level headings are in all caps and aligned left. T. Essential reading for any designer of any kind This is essential and timeless reading for any designer. It's tough to get through, ironically because it's a book about usability and accessibility in design and it's just oceans upon oceans of text. But Donald Norman is brilliant and the ideas are sound. Consider that the original book was written long before the internet and that the revised edition in the late 90's or early 00's hadn't really gone out of date. The principles are still completely relevant and not dependent on fads or changing technology. If you are an artist, industrial designer, graphic designer, tech
. 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. 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
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.. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A