The design of future things / Donald A. Norman.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Basic Books/Perseus Book Group, [2009], c2007.Description: viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0465002285 (pbk.)
- 9780465002283 (pbk.)
- 745.4 NOR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 745.4 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100412254 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things , he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from "smart" cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need, to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's thinking machines. This is a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future, and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects-many of which are already in use or development.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.