Fake missile attack warning? Human error? Nonsense. It's incompetent design. One wrong click terrorizes the entire state? Why is it possible? I have a book they need to read.
Apple reaches a new low: its design ethic is not just beauty over understanding, it's beauty over safety. Employees get injured walking into glass walls-well-known safety hazard. Their fixes are removed "“because they detracted from the building’s design.”
My New Book Is (will be) Design for a Better World: How to create a meaningful, sustainable, and humanity-centered future. For publication by MIT Press, early 2023. Excerpts posted at
11 books I found inspirational in 2018: I recommend all 11 for my followers for 2019. I surprised myself by the variety I had found valuable. I single out three for special attention. See
It's not a humanities degree that will save you: it is broad, general knowledge and curiosity. A willingness to learn, continually, for your entire life. (That's what I do)
Complexity is in the world, simplicity is in the mind. How simple should something be? As simple as possible, but no simpler, because if it is simpler than possible, it is no longer simple: it becomes complicated, and therefore confusing. (To rephrase Einstein’s statement)
An autonomous car was in an accident that killed a pedestrian. What should we learn from this incident? just as new medicines are introduced with controlled tests certified by a trusted, neutral agency (FDA), we must do same with vehicles: See
@michael_nielsen
Michael asked what advances have come from HCI. I say it is HCI itself. Every major computer & software company now has an HCI group (sometimes called UX). HCI is ubiquitous: it has improved thousands of systems. You can't see it because it is everywhere-which makes it invisible.
@charlesfracchia
@PasteurKorea
The toggling of on and off on elevator buttons is not new. It should be universal, but it isn’t. As a result there is no way of knowing if the elevator you are in has it. So, it may be In lots of places, but the lack of a signifier means they are unlikely to be discovered.
Someone complained that my book “Living with complexity” didn’t discuss complexity theory. I said my book was not about complexity, it was about simplicity. Complexity is in the world, simplicity is in the mind. (See next tweet .)
Finally had time to update my website. (The only virtue to having three different conferences canceled because of COVID-19.) Added paper by Michael Meyer and me Changing Design Education for the 21st Century. available at
@BlakeC
Of course we need beauty, but there is no reason that aesthetics, understandability, and ease of use should be in conflict: a great designer melds all of these into one wonderful, pleasurable, functional and understandable experience.
@shancarter
@michael_nielsen
Your Distill paper -- "Using AI to augment" is brilliant. Thank you. Every new representational system has created new primitives for thought, greatly magnifying human capabilities. You show dynamical representations--and these are still early days
The World Design Organization just announce that the San Diego-Tijuana region is the World Design Capital for 2024. A 7 year effort on our part, this will unite and energize the region. Demonstrate what design can accomplish.
@geoffwilsonUX
I don’t see the problem. You simply place the palm of one hand on the flat plate and push while simultaneously grasping the handle with the other hand and pulling, thus exerting a rotational torque on the door that ...
Design for a Better World won't be published until March 21 but MIT Press alerted me that Barnes & Noble offers a 25% discount for a preorder ONLY ON SEPT 7-8.
@bnbuzz
says to use the code PREORDER25. See
I'll be speaking at this event. Here is the official description
The mini-conference will offer valuable insight from global design-thinking influencers including Don Norman, founding member of the Design Forward...
The DesignLab is doing major work on Community-Driven Design, with several different variants. If you are working in this area, submit a paper to the DIS conference here in San Diego.
The Design Lab invites DIS community members to submit one-page position papers in response to the concept of community-driven design to explore, define, and advance community-driven design with us.
#DIS2019
Submit by May 1, 2019 at 11:59p PT.
How could Pizza save the world? It's a platform, a model for societal platforms that can empower people all over the world and that can indeed change the world.
Your clear, well-written article makes it clear that we are (finally) moving away from AI replacing people toward Augmentation. A dream of many of us, but up to now, I (for one) didn't know how it was going to happen. Now I see one direction. Thanks. Don Norman (dnorman
@ucsd
.edu)
I’m pleased that YouTube has restored the PSW account. No explanation, not even to say account was restored. YouTube believes in fairness—opacity for everyone. (My talk not there yet-“technical difficulties" by PSW)
Shame on V. Greenwood for article on pinna in sound localization.
@nytimes
treated it as news: in psychoacoustics it’s decades old. See Wikipedia "Sound Localization." Science section of NYTimes doesn't know science.
The DesignLab is doing major work on Community-Driven Design, with several different variants. If you are working in this area, submit a paper to the DIS conference here in San Diego (see DesignLab posting below)....