Business Week has named Don Norman as one of the world's most influential designers. He has been both a professor and an executive: he was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Apple; his company, the Nielsen Norman Group, helps companies produce human-centered products and services; he has been on the faculty at Harvard, the University of California, San Diego, Northwestern University, and KAIST, in South Korea. He is the author of many books, including The Design of Everyday Things, The Invisible Computer (MIT Press, 1998), Emotional Design, and The Design of Future Things.
If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. We don't want simplicity. Simple tools are not up to the task. The world is complex; our tools need to match that complexity.
Simplicity turns out to be more complex than we thought. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It’s not complexity that’s the problem, it’s bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity.
Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. But even such simple things as salt and pepper shakers, doors, and light switches become complicated when we have to deal with many of them, each somewhat different. Managing complexity, says Norman, is a partnership. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools.
Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.
第二册主要关注“复杂”这个词,简单的对立面不是复杂,而是「费解」。复杂是世界的状态,而且是常态,糟糕的设计不是太复杂,而是令人困惑的复杂。所以对设计师而言,重要的是驯服复杂,less is more的less不是少和简单,而是管理得很好的复杂让使用者不再困惑。 ·复杂的事物...
評分我没有看过《设计心理学》和《设计心理学3:情感设计》,这本2是随便挑的。读起来不累,只是有点絮絮叨叨,信息量不够大。还有这本书有一个比较别扭的地方,很多内容中引用的图片总是放在下一页。结果让人不知道是应该坚持看完这一页的内容呢,还是应该先去下一页看图再翻回来...
評分如果你在寻找一套网站设计理论书籍,那么就把诺曼的设计系列丛书买齐好了。这是不二的选择。 看living with complexity会有巨大的实际好处,当你不知道如何处理上司的指令时,比如要简洁? 要这个功能那个功能?诺曼会这么告诉他~ “人们在复杂程度上有一个偏好范围,太简单...
評分 評分生活細微處的體察
评分諾曼大爺寫書越寫越囉嗦,很多東西翻來覆去的講也未點透具體方法。本書比較新穎的觀點是接受世界復雜的本質,不是越簡單越好,simplicity不代錶usability。人們本來就接受瞭世界是complex的,是有很多feature的,設計師通過閤理的運用structure,affordances,signifiers把産品或服務組織的讓用戶可以理解,而不是直接展示復雜讓用戶感到complicated,confused。算是對現如今極簡設計風潮的另一種辯證思考。我覺得諾曼大爺是透過簡約設計錶象對簡約與復雜有瞭更進一步理解,不過真是絮絮叨叨。正如本書所說,他做到瞭start strong, 但是middle和end真是weak。以後還是少看點設計書籍,多瞭解人、社會與生活這些設計源頭的東西。
评分對簡單與復雜迷思的最強音。必讀!
评分諾曼大爺寫書越寫越囉嗦,很多東西翻來覆去的講也未點透具體方法。本書比較新穎的觀點是接受世界復雜的本質,不是越簡單越好,simplicity不代錶usability。人們本來就接受瞭世界是complex的,是有很多feature的,設計師通過閤理的運用structure,affordances,signifiers把産品或服務組織的讓用戶可以理解,而不是直接展示復雜讓用戶感到complicated,confused。算是對現如今極簡設計風潮的另一種辯證思考。我覺得諾曼大爺是透過簡約設計錶象對簡約與復雜有瞭更進一步理解,不過真是絮絮叨叨。正如本書所說,他做到瞭start strong, 但是middle和end真是weak。以後還是少看點設計書籍,多瞭解人、社會與生活這些設計源頭的東西。
评分Not exactly mind-blowing.
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