Much of the book's concepts such as discovering user's needs, affordance, and design thinking are already known to me, these concepts coined by Norman have become so popular that they have permeated much of the design essay space.
I have also read through much of NNgroup’s site and taken a few interaction design courses. I’ve been working as a product designer for 4 years. Some background on myself, I have a few years of architecture school under my belt and graduated with a computer science degree. I didn't find the book extremely useful for me personally. This time around I finally got to finish the book cover to cover. I tried reading it as an undergrad but got bored in the beginning pages and dropped off. It is written by the "father" of UX, given out when designers onboard companies, and used in many UX education courses. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how - and why - some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is one of the most recommended UX books. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The fault, argues this ingenious - even liberating - book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics.Įven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.
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