Business Week has named Don Norman as one of the world's most influential designers. He has been both a professor and an executive: he was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Apple; his company, the Nielsen Norman Group, helps companies produce human-centered products and services; he has been on the faculty at Harvard, the University of California, San Diego, Northwestern University, and KAIST, in South Korea. He is the author of many books, including The Design of Everyday Things, The Invisible Computer (MIT Press, 1998), Emotional Design, and The Design of Future Things.
If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. We don't want simplicity. Simple tools are not up to the task. The world is complex; our tools need to match that complexity.
Simplicity turns out to be more complex than we thought. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It’s not complexity that’s the problem, it’s bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity.
Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. But even such simple things as salt and pepper shakers, doors, and light switches become complicated when we have to deal with many of them, each somewhat different. Managing complexity, says Norman, is a partnership. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools.
Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.
我们的生活变得越来越复杂,我们生活在一个复杂的时代。充斥着各种工具,机器。很多时候我们对于这些工具都束手无策。科技在不断的进步,可是我们却感觉不到因为科技带来的满足感、幸福感。 为什么有这样的结果?因为这些产品虽然功能增加了、复杂了,但是它们没...
评分 评分 评分 评分首先这本书的名字起得太讨巧,《如何管理复杂》。但里面的内容会有些莫名其妙,结构安排也没什么逻辑性。如果你知道书的英文原名《living with complexity》,可能就没那么纠结了。对于一本和心理学沾边的书,中文名字竟然给了读者存在偏差的预期,只能说太功利。 这本书要从...
“An affordance is a relationship: it speaks to the possible actions a person can perform upon an object. ”
评分带着问题读觉得很有启发,写得很浅,不过角度和道理很受用
评分Norman后来的书越写越啰嗦起来了。
评分从Don Norman的书里面学到的核心思想是:好的design源于观察生活。当然还是它早期的书感觉更powerful。。。
评分U should be bloody smart.
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