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Why did she feel the need to make everyone, even this waiter, like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.
“A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.”
― 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
“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
“Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
Rosa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rosa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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10 friends
95 books
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4 friends
1 book
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1 friend
58 books
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3 friends
42 books
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8 friends
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