The Design Of Everyday Things: Revised And Expanded Edition

What an amazing book

This is a really good, and inciteful book about the psychology of how we interact with things in our day to day. If you're designing anything that will be used by a human (like most things), I think this book is a must read. It has subtly changed the way I think when designing something. I'm not really one for reading. But I have read this twice, and got the audio book.

Great little gift for my colleague at work :-) Worth a read for those looking to get into Product design

Talks about design principles, relationships between the user and the product and what can grow wrong. Touches on types of errors (referencing the airline industry and the importance of checklists, effective signifiers, appropriate affordances and warning alarms/feedback mechanisms). Design is contextual and users, stakeholders, the business side of things all have to be considered and can make or break a product. Design underpins most fields (e.g Medicine, Gaming, Aviation, Software, Cuisine, Writing). An important topic everyone should delve into.

I bought this because I'm moving my teaching towards a design focus (I'm sick of seeing my workshop filled with dozens of identical projects!), and this book is fascinating. It's definitely going to take two reads to get the full message from it. But, generally, if you find yourself getting frustrated by the made world around you - doors you can't find, taps that turn the wrong way - this is the book for you.

I read the original version of this book in the 1980’s and was fascinated by its content and scope. Since then I have had an interest in design and interfacing. I finally thought it was time to re-read TDOET and thought I would buy the updated version. It didn’t disappoint.

One of those fantastic books that makes you re-consider everything around you: Why do things look the way they do - and most importantly - why are some things easier to use than others? Filled with great examples and more than a little bit of common sense, I think this is a must-read for everybody - designers and mere mortals alike.

This book is a classic in its field but ... The picture quality throughout his printing is terrible, the photos are small, low resolution and in black and white so you really have to peer at them to understand what is being shown / discussed. Not great for a book about design. Whilst this updated version has lots of new content it uses fairly technical language and isn’t a book that you just flow through it feels more like an effort to read it. It’s a good book but one you must want to read

Kocht deze versie als geschenk. De uitgave is enorm teleurstellend... Cover foto helemaal uitgewassen en lage resolutie.

I read the book and sometimes got a little confused but I read most of it drunk. He gives a lot of cool examples that make you go "Oh that's why fire escape doors have that bar in front of them and open outwards". I wish more people in the design/manufacturing field would have read this book. It would make for far less waste and frustration in the world

Das Buch war an der Uni für die Einführungsvorlesung zu Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) Pflichtlektüre. In der Vorlesung wurde es als ein Muss für alle vorgestellt, die UI/UX-Design machen. Nach zweimaligem Lesen kann ich dies bestätigen. Aber auch für Leute, die mit HCI oder Design nichts am Hut haben, kann ich das Buch empfehlen. Es liefert einem eine ganz andere Sichtweise auf Dinge, die man täglich im Leben benutzt. Und da ist meine größte Erkenntnis: Fehler durch "menschliches Versagen" - egal ob das große oder nur kleine Auswirkungen hat - sind meist nicht durch den Menschen verursacht, sondern durch schlechtes Design. Das ist eine Denkweise, mit der man sich selbst weniger herunterzieht. Norman macht aus etlichen Beispielen aus dem Leben deutlich, wie einfach oder kompliziert Gegenstände entworfen werden. Dabei gibt er einfache Modelle, die helfen das menschliche Handeln und die Psychologie hinter ihrem Handeln zu verstehen. Er beantwortet Fragen wie: -Wie funktionieren mentale Modelle? -Wie denkt der Mensch und führt Aktionen aus? Was können dabei für Probleme auftreten? Was ist wenn Fehler auftreten? -Wie funktioniert (vereinfacht) das Gedächtnis und was können wir daraus für Design lernen? -Wie kann Design Menschen dazu beeinflussen das "Richtige" zu tun und Fehler zu vermeiden? -Wie kann ein Team im Idealfall ein Designprojekt funktionieren? Die Beispiele aus dem Alltag, die er in dieser überarbeiteten Version anführt, sind so gewählt, dass sie modern sind und wahrscheinlich auch noch in einigen Jahren aktuell sind. Auch wenn es nun bereits einige Zeit her ist, dass ich das Buch gelesen habe, denke ich immer noch häufig an Beispiele aus dem Buch; zum Beispiel wenn ich wieder einer "Norman-Tür" begegne und drücke statt zu ziehen, oder wenn ich zum hundertsten Mal versuche die Temperatur in meinem Kühlschrank anzupassen, den Drehregler aber immer noch nicht verstanden habe. Das Buch ist sehr gut lesbar, sprachlich einfach gehalten, interessant und unterhaltsam. Es gibt einige Abbildungen, die zum Verständnis beitragen. Fazit: Klare Leseempfehlung.

Bazı şeyler gerekenden fazla, bazıları da gerekenden az detaylandırılmış ancak kitap anlaşılır ve güzel. Fakat büyük problem basımında. Cidden orijinal bir kitabın kapağının bu kadar kolay aşınmaması gerekirdi. Özellikle sırtının köşesi çok aşındı.

Books good so far, but I came to discuss how the entire premise of this book is good design, yet the arrangement of text and binding of the book is bad design itself, lol. When reading, the titles for each information section or paragraph is all the way to the right, past the margins and nearly inside the binding of the book, making me have to bend back the pages and the exterior to be able to read the whole title clearly and visibly. I thought this was a silly remark to make, one that I find paradoxical because of the books premise. But so far, the contents are very interesting and I have read 1/3 of the book in one day, I can’t seem to put it down despite its bad design.