The Design Of Everyday Things: Revised And Expanded Edition

Talks about design principles, relationships between the user and the product and what can grow wrong. Touches on types of errors (referencing the airline industry and the importance of checklists, effective signifiers, appropriate affordances and warning alarms/feedback mechanisms). Design is contextual and users, stakeholders, the business side of things all have to be considered and can make or break a product. Design underpins most fields (e.g Medicine, Gaming, Aviation, Software, Cuisine, Writing). An important topic everyone should delve into.

A must read for aspiring and practicing designers.

Great little gift for my colleague at work :-) Worth a read for those looking to get into Product design

good gift

Most of this book is pure gold for designers and product managers, elegantly expressed and faultlessly argued. The third act is a bit woolly and observational but so what. I've never copied so many quotes.

I bought this because I'm moving my teaching towards a design focus (I'm sick of seeing my workshop filled with dozens of identical projects!), and this book is fascinating. It's definitely going to take two reads to get the full message from it. But, generally, if you find yourself getting frustrated by the made world around you - doors you can't find, taps that turn the wrong way - this is the book for you.

I read the original version of this book in the 1980’s and was fascinated by its content and scope. Since then I have had an interest in design and interfacing. I finally thought it was time to re-read TDOET and thought I would buy the updated version. It didn’t disappoint.

This book is a classic in its field but ... The picture quality throughout his printing is terrible, the photos are small, low resolution and in black and white so you really have to peer at them to understand what is being shown / discussed. Not great for a book about design. Whilst this updated version has lots of new content it uses fairly technical language and isn’t a book that you just flow through it feels more like an effort to read it. It’s a good book but one you must want to read