The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman (PDF)

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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.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I love Don Norman and his ideas about design. I needed this book for a class I was taking and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading it. The only downside is that he can be verbose at time, but he is clear about getting his point across.

⭐I did not expect to enjoy this book, but I did and I would highly recommend it. I wish more designers and engineers read it, even if I don’t always agree 100% with Norman.Seller was great- product came on time/early and in perfect shape

⭐An interesting read. Ranks in this order:(1) Design of Everyday Things(2) Emotional Design(distant 3rd) Design of Future ThingsIt wasn’t “bad” it simply wasn’t as interesting as the others. Whereas at the end of (1) and (2) I felt enlightened – that Norman was breaking new ground. At the end of Future Things I felt he had spent much of the time repeating himself, that the book could have been half the length.Good book, but I would skip.

⭐Norman’s book Design of Everyday Things had a profound effect both on the way I perceive the world and how I design. I have bought every consumer book he has written since then, and have always come away disappointed.I am giving this book only 3 stars because I felt it became repetitive after a while, having covered the points adequately in the first half of the book. Not up to the quality I expect of Norman.

⭐Slightly different from his other books, this seems more a collection of musings about automation and human-machine interaction. Worth a read but perhaps a little more shallow than his other work.

⭐Mixed with some really good ideas is mostly just pontification and droll explanation of things that already are.Many of the conclusions in this book can be reached much sooner on the reader’s own without the lengthy writer’s passages that seem to only extend the book’s length rather than open the reader’s mind. Yes, machines now only signal us, not communicate with us, when the wash’s cycle has ended or the microwave’s 2 minutes are up, but then, what else do we need? I don’t want my vacuum reminding me it’s vacuuming or when it’s finished. That’s why it’s automatic.

⭐All the books I’ve bought, are written very successful.

⭐Thanks

⭐I bought this because I enjoyed “The psychology of everyday things” by the same author. He combines practical information with interesting comments about how the mind works and how people react to good design. Well worth reading

⭐Excellent

⭐Wer sich dafür interessiert, wie man Dinge so konzipiert, dass sie ihre Nutzer verärgern oder gar gefährden, der ist mit diesem Buch gut beraten. Und wer sich intelligent unterhalten lassen will mit Geschichten aus dem täglichen Leben (oder dem, wie wir es in 10 Jahren führen werden), der kann hier auch nichts falsch machen.Ob man Usability-Profi ist oder das Thema nur spannend findet, wie die Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Maschine funktioniert (oder eben nicht) – jeder wird dieses Buch mit Freue lesen. Bahnbrechende Erkenntnisse darf man sich nicht erwarten, aber einige schöne Geschichten und etliche Denkanstöße.

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⭐Best of its kind from Don

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