Product DescriptionIn The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the links between design and human psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the … [Read more...]
Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things
Product DescriptionDesign Your Life is a series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them. By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton, it shows how design is about much more than what’s bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA. Design is critical thinking: a way to look at the world and … [Read more...]
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
ISBN13: 9781422124826Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionUntil now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti … [Read more...]
The Design of Everyday Things
ISBN13: 9780465067107 Product Description Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, … [Read more...]