The Design of Future Things by Donald Norman
2007
ISBN 978-0-465-00227-6
This author is a guru of design, and I have his "The Design of Everyday Things" aka
"Psychology of Everyday Things" also in my reading pile - not being a library book it is getting less attention, in spite of having better pictures!
One thing that really impressed me was the author's willingness to admit to changing his maind about things in a public forum - shows integrity.
The book talks about intelligent cars and smart houses which are being developed in research facilities now. It discusses rules for good design, and considers (in a playful Afterword) how machines might feel about people. An interesting discussion is the difference between automation and augmentation. I think it was a green book with dormouse in the title (John Markoff's What the Dormouse Said ) which first alerted me to the centrality of this debate in the early years of computr design and development.
2007
ISBN 978-0-465-00227-6
This author is a guru of design, and I have his "The Design of Everyday Things" aka
"Psychology of Everyday Things" also in my reading pile - not being a library book it is getting less attention, in spite of having better pictures!
One thing that really impressed me was the author's willingness to admit to changing his maind about things in a public forum - shows integrity.
The book talks about intelligent cars and smart houses which are being developed in research facilities now. It discusses rules for good design, and considers (in a playful Afterword) how machines might feel about people. An interesting discussion is the difference between automation and augmentation. I think it was a green book with dormouse in the title (John Markoff's What the Dormouse Said ) which first alerted me to the centrality of this debate in the early years of computr design and development.
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