The Design of Future Things
The Design of Future Things
Book overview
Published: 2007
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.
Excerpts
- Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens: How machines take control (A PDF document)
- Servants of our Machines
- The Psychology of People & Machines
- The Role of Automation
- Natural Interaction
- Six Rules for the Design of Smart Things
- The Future of Everyday Things
- Afterward: The Machine’s Point of View (A pdf document)
Translations
- Brazil (Rocco)
- China (Beijing Celtic Culture)
- Italy (Apogeo)
- Japan (Shinyo-sha)
- Korea (Hakjisa)
- Spain (Paidos)
- Taiwan (Yuan-Liou: Taiwan)
