The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things - Hardcover

Norman, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465002277 ISBN 13: 9780465002276

Publisher: Basic Books, 2007

Synopsis

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. This is 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald A. Norman is Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, a former Apple Fellow,” and a partner in the Nielsen Norman Group Consulting Firm, which consults with corporations on design. He is the author of a number of books on design, including Emotional Design and the best-selling The Design of Everyday Things. He lives in Northbrook, Illinois and Palo Alto, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0465002277
• ISBN 13: 9780465002276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240