The Design of Everyday Things
 | Basic Books, 1988, Kindle Edition Customer Rating: 149 reviews Recommend |
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A popular, entertaining, and insightful analysis of why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.
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. 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.
Title: The Design of Everyday Things
Sales Rank: 2106 in Books
Author: Donald A. Norman
Publisher: Basic Books, 1988-06-12, Kindle Edition, 288 pages
- A Must Read for every Designer
- As a human being we think we know other people and how they see and use products. This book tells many amusing anecdotes about products that were not successful because the designer made the things is a way he would have liked and not in the way real users use it. The book is written full of humor and with… More reviews
- Outdated, better books available
- This book is a classic in the sense that it was once groundbreaking, in that it pointed out obvious flaws in industrial and software design. However, a lack of any updates outside of a new introduction leaves the book stale and dated. Complaints about the design of 1980s DOS software and VCRs is now of only historical interest. More reviews
- One of the best books any designer could read
- So often "design" books seem to go on about looks and "feel" yet only brush over the physiology of design. This book shows you how to think like a user, explorer like a user, error like a user and design for helping the user love your product.
Anyone reading this book will instantly appreciate truly good design over… More reviews
- It's OK - but how can this be the seminal book on usability...?
- Having heard that this was the seminal work in usabiliy, my expectations were probably too high.
Some of the principles laid out are indeed excellent and well illustrated.
The structure of the book is - ironically - not crystal clear. As I am reading the book I find myself looking back at the table of contents to understand the structure.
The… More reviews
- Vey fast delivery very prompt service
- very nice delivery very fast response. One of the best sellers at amazon.
will do business any time with them. More reviews
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