Things That Make Us Smart
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Things That Make Us Smart

Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

Don Norman

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Things That Make Us Smart

Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

Don Norman

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About This Book

By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring this complex relationship between humans and machines. In this seminal work, fully revised and updated, Norman gives us the first steps towards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines we use every day. Humans have always worked with objects to extend our cognitive powers, from counting on our fingers to designing massive supercomputers. But advanced technology does more than merely assist with memory—the machines we create begin to shape how we think and, at times, even what we value. In THINGS THAT MAKE US SMART, Donald Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.

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Publisher
Diversion Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781626815377
Topic
Diseño
Subtopic
Historia y crítica del diseño

Table of contents

  1. Things That Make Us Smart
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Chapter Notes and Book Design
  5. Preface
  6. One: A Human-Centered Technology
  7. Two: Experiencing the World
  8. Three: The Power of Representation
  9. Four: Fitting the Artifact to the Person
  10. Five: The Human Mind
  11. Six: Distributed Cognition
  12. Seven: A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place
  13. Eight: Predicting the Future
  14. Nine: Soft and Hard Technology
  15. Ten: Technology Is Not Neutral
  16. Chapter Notes
  17. References
  18. More from Don Norman
  19. Connect with Diversion Books
Citation styles for Things That Make Us Smart

APA 6 Citation

Norman, D. (2014). Things That Make Us Smart ([edition unavailable]). Diversion Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1059860/things-that-make-us-smart-defending-human-attributes-in-the-age-of-the-machine-pdf (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Norman, Don. (2014) 2014. Things That Make Us Smart. [Edition unavailable]. Diversion Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/1059860/things-that-make-us-smart-defending-human-attributes-in-the-age-of-the-machine-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Norman, D. (2014) Things That Make Us Smart. [edition unavailable]. Diversion Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1059860/things-that-make-us-smart-defending-human-attributes-in-the-age-of-the-machine-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Norman, Don. Things That Make Us Smart. [edition unavailable]. Diversion Books, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.