User Centered Design

This is from Chapter 7 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman:
Seven Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones
How does the designer go about the task? As I’ve argued the principles of design are straightforward:
1)    Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head
2)    Simplify the structure of tasks
3)    Make things visible: bridge the gulfs of Execution and Evaluation
4)    Get the mappings right
5)    Exploit the power of constraints, both natural and artificial.
6)    Design for error.
7)    When all else fails, standardize.
This is the final chapter in Norman’s book, I am not going to break down …read more