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The Design of Future Thingsby: Donald A. Norman
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AbstractFrom best-selling author Donald A. Norman, the long-awaited sequel to <I>The Design of Everyday Things</I>: a critical look at the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. <P> Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to <I>The Design of Everyday Things</I>, he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere--from "smart" cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need, to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer 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. This is a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future, and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects--many of which are already in use or development.
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