The Design of Everyday Things
BOOK TIP In the book "The Design of Everyday Things", author Don Norman explains why the design of many products misleads people, how people interact with products and what the principles of good design are.The cover of the first edition of this bestseller, first published in English in the late 1980s, features an unusual object: a "coffee pot for masochists" whose handle is on the same side as the spout. This makes it practically unusable. What is meant as a joke here unfortunately also happens in reality: objects are designed in such a way that nobody understands what the developer was thinking. In his book, Don Norman wants to show how to achieve the opposite: to design everyday objects, appliances, devices and computers in such a way that using them is not a burden, but a pleasure. However, the designers have done the author a disservice with the book design of the revised German edition, as they use such a tiny font that one wonders whether someone should have studied the high school of typography again. The structure is also not ideal: individual topics are scattered throughout the book. The style is sometimes wooden, but this may also be due to the translation. The reader is compensated with many beautiful examples of design mistakes from all over the world, documented by the author on camera. getAbstract recommends this book to all designers and product managers who want to design everyday objects that customers will love.Feasibility: 7Innovation level: 8Style: 5getAbstract rating: 7Publisher: VahlenPublication year: 2016Pages: 320ISBN: 9783800648092
