The Norman door
Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn’t need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?
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A (very) brief history of interaction design
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction. It describes the history of interaction design from the perspective of the products that resulted from user-centered design.
Don’t worry about all the details and chronology, read this as a history of interaction design from the perspective of an interaction designer.
How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh
Wired Magazine provides an excerpt from the book User Friendly by Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant. It tells the tale of how experimental psychologist Paul Fitts was brought into the Air Force to research recurring crashes in the B-17 Flying Fortress. Instead of “pilot error,” he saw what he called, for the first time, “designer error.”
DDG on Users and Design
4 spreads from DDG – we suggest you read Anthropometric Design and User-Centered Design first, and then zoom out to Co-Design & Co-Creation.
Design for Real World
The entire Design for Real World. You can read chapter 1 as enriching material.
A Designer’s Code of Ethics
Mike Monteiro, co-founder and design director of interactive design studio Mule Design, elaborates on the ethics of design.
Ore Streams
The Ore Streams website presents a study led by Studio Formafantasma on the current state of e-waste management.
Fairphone supply chain
An overview of the Fairphone 3 supply chain.
Design for the Other 90%
Design for the Other 90% demonstrates how design can be a dynamic force in saving and transforming lives, at home and around the world.
Design for the Real World | Preface
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.