Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!kan From: kan@dg-rtp.dg.com (Victor Kan) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Psychology of Everyday Things (POET) Summary: a wonderful book Message-ID: <708@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 02:23:02 GMT References: <1989Nov20.231902.3349@apcipdx> Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP Reply-To: kan@mutley.dg.com () Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 29 In article <1989Nov20.231902.3349@apcipdx> rwl@apcipdx (Rob Lucke) writes: > > I just finished reading "The Psychology of Everyday Things" by >Donald A. Norman (ISBN 0-465-06709-3) and am wondering what the net >thought about the information presented. I read the book for a class in HCI and loved it. As Arsenio Hall would say, this book makes you say "Hmmm..." about Everyday Things, including computers. Another book we used was Ben Schneiderman's Designing the User Interface. Schneiderman's book never made me think "Hmmm..."; instead, it made me go "Yawn." Rather than expressing simple yet brilliant ideas, as Norman does, Schneiderman gives endless lists of does and don'ts. >I think it should be >required reading for anyone designing user interfaces, software or >otherwise. How about it, has anyone else read it? Comments? POET is this and more. All civilized human beings must read Norman's book, or our world will come to a violent end caused by user/consumer frustrations. >Rob Lucke (503)682-8288\ / hpupora!apcipdx!rwl \ / >Hewlett-Packard (sales) \/tektronix!mntgfx!apcipdx!rwl\/ Memory fault. >9255 S.W. Pioneer Court /\ or /\ Core Dumped. >Wilsonville, OR 97070 / \ apcipdx!rwl@apollo.com / \ You have new mail. | Victor Kan | I speak only for myself. | *** | Data General Corporation | Edito cum Emacs, ergo sum. | **** | 62 T.W. Alexander Drive | Columbia Lions Win, 9 October 1988 for | **** %%%% | RTP, NC 27709 | a record of 1-44. Way to go, Lions! | *** %%% Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com