Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman - ISBN: 9780262528948
Paperback
Why we don’t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.

Living with Complexity

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    308 pages

  • Release Date

    12 February 2016

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Summary

Why we don’t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. 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 cours…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262528948
ISBN-10:0262528940
Author:Donald A. Norman
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:308
Release Date:12 February 2016
Weight:318g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm x 19mm
Series:The MIT Press
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Critics Review

As the world grows beyond the understanding of any one Renaissance man or woman, Donald Norman’s missive is well timed. Every product designer is an interaction designer whether they want to be or not.

—Robert Blinn, Core77

… you will like Norman’s calm voice, keen observations and sage counsel about what could be done. Read his book.

—Geoffrey K. Pullum, Times Higher Education

About The Author

Donald A. Norman

Business Week has named Don Norman 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; and 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), Emotional Design, and The Design of Future Things.

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