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Contents 1 The Design Of Everyday Things 2 Date Of Birth 3 See Also 4 Interlock

[edit] The Design Of Everyday Things

I think of the Design of Everyday Things as by far the best of these books by D. Norman -- paradigm shattering, rather than preaching to the converted. To make that perception encylopaedic, can we back it empirically somehow? Sales figures from somewhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pelavarre (talk • contribs) 19:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date Of Birth

Does anyone have a birth date for this individual?

[edit] See Also

Speaking from my own experience, I believe people who like Donald Norman's book Things That Make Us Smart are also likely to dig Douglas Hofstadter's and Daniel Dennett's books.

[edit] Interlock

I expected to see Interlock_(engineering) linked here, because of how "The Design of Everyday Things" celebrates the useful "first say please" interlocks over the useless "are you sure" prompts that people rapidly learn to answer without thought, e.g., three-year-olds who learn how to click thru software license agreements before learning how to read.