The Design of Future Things
New York : BasicBooks, 2007.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to 'The Design of Everyday Things', he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from "smart" cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need, to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's thinking machines. Thisis a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future, and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects-many of which are already in use or development.
Subjects:
Industrial design.
Design and technology.
Human-computer interaction.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Industrial design.
Design and technology.
Human-computer interaction.
Technology -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780465002276 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ART Design Nor | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.