Review Of Donald Norman Design Of Everyday Things
successful design - and it detracts from perceiving Norman in a wholly positive light and believing
him.
One of the things DOET aspires to teach the reader is observation - for the book to emerge as
wholly successful the readers should start watching and seeing the objects of their everyday use
and their interactions with them. Many readers - including myself - have reported at least
temporary increase in acuteness of recognition of omission or application of principles of good
design; at least, for a time, we start questioning the surrounding world as to why it is the way it is -
was there a deliberate thought on the part of the designer put into this or that detail and if it has
served the object well or failed. Regardless of how long the state of acute perception lasts, the book
serves its readers well, as a regulation to transfer the blame at least, as an accumulation of
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