Living with Complexity

Living with Complexity
Author: Donald A. Norman
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780262528948

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Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity. If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem, it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity. Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools. Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.

Living with Complexity

Living with Complexity
Author: Donald A. Norman
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2010-10-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780262296878

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Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity. If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem, it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity. Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools. Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.

Living with Complexity

Living with Complexity
Author: Donald A. Norman
Publsiher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262014866

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In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem; it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity. Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity.

Complexity

Complexity
Author: Mitchell M. Waldrop
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1993-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780671872342

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A look at the rebellious thinkers who are challenging old ideas with their insights into the ways countless elements of complex systems interact to produce spontaneous order out of confusion

Exposing the Magic of Design

Exposing the Magic of Design
Author: Jon Kolko
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780199780952

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Design synthesis is a way of thinking about complicated, multifaceted problems of a large scale with a repeatable degree of success. Design synthesis methods can be applied in business, with the goal of producing new and compelling products and services, and they can be applied in government, with the goal of changing culture and bettering society. In both contexts, however, there is a need for speed and for aggressive action. This text is immediately relevant, and is more relevant than ever, as we acknowledge and continually reference a feeling of an impending and massive change. Simply, this text is intended to act as a practitioner's guide to exposing the magic of design.

The Design of Future Things

The Design of Future Things
Author: Don Norman
Publsiher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465002285

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In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the links between design and human psychology, he offers 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. A fascinating look at the perils and promise of the intelligent objects of the future, The Design of Future Things is a must-read for anyone interested in the dawn of a new era in technology.

Things That Make Us Smart

Things That Make Us Smart
Author: Don Norman
Publsiher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781626815377

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By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring this complex relationship between humans and machines. In this seminal work, fully revised and updated, Norman gives us the first steps towards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines we use every day. Humans have always worked with objects to extend our cognitive powers, from counting on our fingers to designing massive supercomputers. But advanced technology does more than merely assist with memory—the machines we create begin to shape how we think and, at times, even what we value. In THINGS THAT MAKE US SMART, Donald Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.

Living with Complexity

Living with Complexity
Author: Diana Leslie,Trustee Renewal Project
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1994
Genre: Children
ISBN: 0925299367

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