Don Norman
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The Design of Everyday Things
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The design of everyday things is about how things work and how people interact with them.
People often confuse the visual with the functional.
Design should be intuitive and simple.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
It is not enough to design a product that works; it must also be usable.
Feedback is essential for the user to understand what is going on.
User-centered design means that we must focus on the needs of the user.
When you make a mistake, it’s not just the mistake that matters, but how you fix it.
Feedback is essential for learning and improving.
Design should be human-centered, not technology-centered.