by Donald A. Norman
This book has several very important ideas:* Even if you aren't professional designer, you still use design everywhere in your life, including how you design your house, your resume, a report, some code, etc.* Design is all about focusing on people's needs and abilities. You may think you know what ...
It's dated now, obviously, and the black and white photos seem academic and quaint, but this is the book that opened my eyes to the function of design, and helped me verbalize my rage when I reach for the wrong knob on the stove or pull on a door that is supposed to be pushed.
You can learn a lot about relationships from studying the principles of design.Design is a noun and a verb. Here we’re thinking in terms of both, as in how to design a design. A design is an act of communication. Even the purely aesthetic design, in which appearance is all, is intended to evoke a re...
You can learn a lot about relationships from studying the principles of design.Design is a noun and a verb. Here we’re thinking in terms of both, as in how to design a design. A design is an act of communication. Even the purely aesthetic design, in which appearance is all, is intended to evoke a re...
Excellent piece of non-fiction. This book is a prescribed textbook for a course on computer interface design that I'm doing. Once I really started reading it, I almost couldn't put it down - it was so interesting that it almost read like fiction - none of the dry dust usually found in conventional...
Loved the premise, the execution left me a little cold. There was much here that was interesting but then it would start turning into a text book. I'm sure that for an engineering student or a doorknob designer an analysis of the eight or nine distinct actions and decisions involved in opening a d...
Log in with Facebook 
