The Design of Everyday Things
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- 1K+
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 369
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The Design of Everyday Things is a book by Don Norman, a cognitive scientist and design researcher, first published in 1988 under the title The Psychology of Everyday Things. It looks at why ordinary objects, from doors to stoves to software, can be confusing, and argues that when people struggle with a product the fault usually lies with the design, not with the user.
Norman explains key ideas such as visibility, mapping between controls and results, feedback, constraints, affordances and conceptual models, and he shows how designers can use them to make products easier to understand.
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Book facts
- Author
- Don Norman
- First published
- 1988
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online