Don Norman
Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.
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- Don Norman is an American cognitive scientist and design writer, best known for The Design of Everyday Things.
- He taught at UC San Diego until 1993, when he joined Apple as an Apple Fellow and later vice president of its Advanced Technology Group; he then worked at Hewlett-Packard and in 1998 co-founded the Nielsen Norman Group with Jakob Nielsen.
- He returned to UC San Diego in 2014 as founding director of the Design Lab and retired from that post at the end of 2020.
Key facts
- Born
- December 25, 19351
- Education
- BS electrical engineering, MIT (1957); MS electrical engineering and PhD psychology, University of Pennsylvania1
- Apple
- Apple Fellow and vice president, from January 1993 to 19973
- Nielsen Norman Group
- Co-founder (1998), now emeritus2
- UC San Diego Design Lab
- Founding director from 2014 to December 31, 20202
- Honours
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering; Franklin Institute medal; Sir Misha Black Medal (2021)2
Roles
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Part of until 1997
Apple (Apple Fellow and vice president) source on Apple
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