Bibliograph

User friendly, how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play, Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

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User friendly, how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play, Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

User friendly

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1053574701

Responsibility statement

Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

Sub title

how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play

Summary

It is a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Kuang and Fabricant unpack 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. They map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change. You'll never interact with technology the same way again. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

The empire of user-friendliness -- Part I: Easy to use -- Confusion -- Industry -- Error -- Trust -- Metaphor -- Part II: Easy to want -- Empathy -- Humanity -- Personalization -- Peril -- Promise -- Seeing the world through user-friendly eyes -- Appendix: A brief history of "user friendly"

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