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Every engineer should read it !, 9 décembre 2001
Every engineer, designer, or student in engineering should read this book, whatever his/her field ! Surely if more designers had read this book, we would have appliances or machines that would be more usable. The book is a lot of fun to read, and you will never say "I'm stupid" when failing to use a machine anymore. Instead, you will say "who in the world is the stupid person who designed this machine so badly !". It will change your life.
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Nice Argument for Usability, But Misses the Application, 25 mai 2007
"The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman is said to be one of those great usability books. I bought mine at a major usability conference, believing the hype. My conclusion: Useful, but overhyped.
Norman takes a theme that says, "Look at history and you will see how the objects we use daily are sensible and functional. Now, design websites and software likewise," and develops a complete book.
Rats. I gave it all away. Now you do not need to buy the book, nor read any its 257 pages.
Really, that's more or less all there is to the book.
It is easy to read, but, in the end, becomes repetitive and is deficient in assisting the reader with application. It points out a problem we need to understand, but offers no solution. It is worth reading, but lacks as an instructional tool.
For the dense-headed, or for someone who has never considered the arguments for thinking about function before form, the book is tremendously useful. Example after example is presented is simple terms so that readers will see that merely having a cool website is not enough.
Where the book does not meet the mark is in the transferring the ideas into something modern, practical, and, in the case of we communications people, websites. What starts with a brilliant exposition about devices being useful ends where it started.
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
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Une très bonne introduction à l'ergonomie, 24 septembre 2003
Dans ce grand classique, Norman s'intéresse à l'ergonomie des objets de tous les jours - avec une attirance marquée pour les poignées de porte ! Sur un ton assez désinvolte, il fait le tour des principaux enjeux et concepts de l'ergonomie des interfaces homme-machine : modèles conceptuels, "affordances", gestion des erreurs, etc. Un très bon point de départ pour découvrir le domaine de l'ergonomie.
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