Donald A. Norman Quotes - Page 4

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• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

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  Believe, Apples, Simplicity

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• I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

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  People, Design, Experts

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• Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them

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  Believe, Robots, Needs

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• Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

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  Confusion, Complaining, Forget

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.4, MIT Press

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• Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

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  Lying, Sophisticated, Cheat

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• I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

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  Thinking, Tendencies

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• Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit...A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people.

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  Technology, People, Suffering

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• Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

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  Practice, Medicine, Usual

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, p. 173, 1988.

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• Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

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  Information, Devices, Available

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• Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.

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  Writing, Organization, Ideas

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, pp. 212 - 213., 1988.

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• The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

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  Philosophy, Important, Overcoming

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• You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

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  Giving, Lectures, Clear

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• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in

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  Technology, Apples, Ipods

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