The Design of Future Things
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780465002276 |
Publisher: | Basic Books |
Imprint: | Basic Books |
Pub date: | 30 Oct 2007 |
DEWEY: | 745.2 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 231 |
Weight: | 463g |
Height: | 236mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |