The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman · How good design makes everyday objects easy to use, and why bad design frustrates people.
14 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
After reading the book it helped me understand the different models the creator and user have and has allowed me to recognize when I'm making design decisions that make a lot of sense to the creator and no sense to the user.
Reading the book “Design of everyday things” helped me think about what are good designs. In good designs, function dictates form- they are designed around how it is to be used.
After reading the book I now keep seeing so many design flaws in so many things around. It also made me appreciate good design similarly.
everything I see nowadays that frustrates me in its design immediately harkens back to a principle in The Design of Everyday Things.
I read The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman more than 10 years ago and it profoundly changed my life.
The Design of Everyday Things makes me rethink every user interaction or problem I face, and not just at work.
I can never walk through an unusual door again without thinking about it since reading that chapter.
That book made me start getting annoyed at bad design like Norman Doors
It -literally- changed the way I look at the world (as a designer).
it has been the most useful of any design book (to me). Changed how I think about design.
this book seriously changed how I look at the world... especially doors.
they helped me understand how users interact with my user interfaces.
Really changed the way I look at human-designed objects.
“The Design of Everyday Things”. The book that sparked a change in my career (to be honest)
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you build or design things and want to see through users' eyes.
- Changed how they see design
- Made bad design noticeable
- Showed how users interact
Style
Big-picture thinking
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