Occasionally, over the years, when I’d felt abandoned and scared and heard a voice in my mind say, “I want my mommy,” I took the note out and read it as a reminder of what she’d actually been like and how little she cared about me. It
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“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“A device is easy to use when the set of possible actions is visible, when the controls and displays exploit natural mappings.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn’t matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
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