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The Design of Everyday Things

A work by Don Norman, first published in 1988

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Most radical innovations fail, and even successful ones can take multiple decades to be accepted, Discoverability and understanding are two of the most important characteristics of good design, It is the duty of machines and their designers to understand people, not people's duty to understand the dictates of machines …

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Key facts

First published
19882
Edition korrents quotes
Basic Books, 2013, revised and expanded edition3
Claims on korrents
151

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Most radical innovations fail, and even successful ones can take multiple decades to be accepted (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Discoverability and understanding are two of the most important characteristics of good design (opens korrents.com)1

  3. It is the duty of machines and their designers to understand people, not people's duty to understand the dictates of machines (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Human-centered design means starting from a good understanding of people and the needs a design is meant to meet (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Good design communicates from machine to person what actions are possible, what is happening and what is about to happen, above all when things go wrong (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Affordances determine what actions are possible and signifiers communicate where to act, and design needs both (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. The Design of Everyday Things (Basic Books, 2013, revised and expanded edition) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Design of Everyday Things, Q7729821 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. The Design of Everyday Things (Basic Books, 2013, revised and expanded edition) (books.google.com) (opens books.google.com)

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