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.
内容应该是不错。 我之所以说应该,是因为里面的文字实在是难以理解 文字难以理解不是因为晦涩难懂 而是,这翻译的也太烂了吧!看起来就是用谷歌翻译然后调整了一下,感觉就是我高中做翻译时的感觉啊! 里面用的词让人摸不到头脑,每句话读着都那么别扭 不明白为什么这么一本畅...
評分 評分 評分 評分帶著問題讀覺得很有啓發,寫得很淺,不過角度和道理很受用
评分Not exactly mind-blowing.
评分“An affordance is a relationship: it speaks to the possible actions a person can perform upon an object. ”
评分Norman後來的書越寫越囉嗦起來瞭。
评分Norman後來的書越寫越囉嗦起來瞭。
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