The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things

About this book

Donald A. Norman a popular design consultant to car manufacturers computer companies and other industrial and design outfits has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things he points out whats going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from smart cars and homes that seek to anticipate a users every need to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrows thinking machines. This is a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects-many of which are already in use or development.