Thursday, February 17, 2011

Microblog #21, "Design of Everyday Things, Chapter 7"

Summary
The final chapter of Norman's book basically rehashes everything he has told us so far in it, before discussing briefly designs of the future. This covers some of the same material as Design of Future Things, but from a perspective further in the past.

Discussion
I found that past perspective to be very interesting. "Yesterday's Tomorrows" (to borrow the title of a book I once read) are always fascinating. The most amusing thing to note here was how people of the future would use their phones to tell their VCRs what to record. So close, and yet so far.

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