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Living with Complexity

Hardcover • 2010 • English

Living with Complexity

By Donald A. Norman

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About the book

If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem, it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity.Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity...Show more

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ISBN

9780262014861

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Living with Complexity

Format

Hardcover

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