内容简介

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, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how--and why--some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

作者简介

Donald A. Norman is Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, a former “Apple Fellow,” and a partner in the Nielsen Norman Group Consulting Firm, which consults with corporations on design. He is the author of a number of books on design, including Emotional Design and the best-selling The Design of Everyday Things. He lives in Northbrook, Illinois and Palo Alto...

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为什么汽车有这么多的控制器和功能，但却比电话系统易学易用呢？答案很简单：可视性程度高。控制和被控制之间保持了良好的自然匹配关系，每种控制器只有单一的功能，因此信息反馈清晰快捷，整个系统易被拥护理解。

——引自第1页

人们倾向于只要能够满足解释就满意。但是我们的解释是建立在与过去经验类比的基础上，那经验不一定能够应用到目前的情况之下。

——引自第1页