This is from Chapter 7 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman:
Seven Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones
How does the designer go about the task? As I’ve argued the principles of design are straightforward:
1) Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head
2) Simplify the structure of tasks
3) […]
In looking at Chapter Six of The Design of Everyday Things we begin to talk about the issues with being the designer.
One of the topics discussed is how the designer thinks that they are still a regular person and are designing based on what people want. However in reality the designer has been attached to […]
I want to look at specific part of chapter 5 in The Design of Everyday Things. This chapter focused on human error, how it happens, and how we need to examine it.
There was a paragraph that really stood out in my mind because the logic in it is so basic and the design is somewhat […]
In continuing my series on interface design I want to talk about chapter four of The Design of Everyday Things. Now this book isn’t strictly about designing web interfaces like the other book I am reading is, however this talks about design in general and gives the reader a lot of interesting things to think […]
There are a couple of things I wanted to tackle this week, one was Facebook’s upcoming change to tabs and I wanted to continue talking about interface design and what I have been learning in my class. Thankfully they kind of intersected and allowed me to look at them together.
In case you haven’t heard Facebook […]
When we are examining interface design another aspect we have to think about is human nature and the psychology behind how we as human beings use things.
In “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman he relates a story about the testing of a computer program years ago and how the return button and the […]
One of the subjects that I often ignore when talking about social media is design. A couple of times I have glossed over the importance of the design of your page specifically when talking about the social networking site MySpace but have never really looked at the subject any more than that.
This semester I am […]
How to use social networking to create brand recognition for your business, your product, or yourself.
Written by Colleen Coplick [email] for b5media.
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