The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

BATB score: 6.7/10 ☂️

a very niche book on design flaws, design frameworks, and practical designs catering to humans' common sense use

Best to: blame the machine and the design! they are at fault when humans had to take some time to read the manuals to comprehend 'how to turn on/off device' when it should have been intuitive #duh

Best for: product designers in the making of user-centric devices

Best as: the examples about the 4 table stove knobs, the push/pull door, the QWERTY keyboard were quite entertaining; other than that it is quite a dense book, difficult to take the principles in to practice if you do not work in product design specifically

Best quote: “Design is successful only if the final product is successful – if people buy it, use it, and enjoy it, thus spreading the word. A design that people do not purchase is a failed design, no matter how great the design team might consider it.” #bookstagram