Ryan L.’s Reviews > The Design of Everyday Things > Status Update

I read about the design combined with the human mind, how oversimplifying multiple switches and buttons to the point where one does not know which works for what. Badly designed doors that also have bad indication of whether to push, pull, or slide. I enjoyed the reading this time.

Norman talks about how secret is a secret and how secure is security when there is too much of one another. Norman talks about short term memory and how people use it and when trying to multiply big numbers, it's hard. Same old same old psychological read.

Norman talks about bad design how many designers are lazy when they don't take into consideration of interaction between a consumer and similarity to another design. He says some designs are faulty because they can be confused with another with looks just alike and some failures done by human should be blamed on the design. I thought today was just same psychological ideas.