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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play | Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
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In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been--and continues to be--remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change--an underappreciated but essential history that's pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time--and you'll never interact with technology the same way again.
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rabbitprincess
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This was really interesting and informative—and in the chapter on personalization, a little bit creepy. Recommended.

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CampbellTaraL
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Pick! You get the historical aspects, of course, but then you get examples of how the lack of design specific to human-machine interaction (3 mile island) and the exploitation of psychology (Facebook) has profound consequences for society. But my favorite part is how designers observed people overcoming obstacles in the world and built tools to make it easier, AKA: support for disabilities, which in turn made things a lot easier for everyone.

sebrittainclark This looks super interesting. I did a capstone in Human Computer Interaction when I was in college. I love this kind of stuff. 4y
CampbellTaraL @sebrittainclark Sweet! I think you'll love this then, the author has great insight. 4y
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