• The Design of Everyday Things 📚
• by Don Norman
• Publication date: 2013
• Read: Mar 17, 2024

I had this book on my reading list for years at this point and never quite got to it. I actually already had it on my Kindle in like 2015 or so and then bought a paper copy a couple of years ago after I had gotten rid of the Kindle. So this year I finally made the time to read it. And I super enjoyed it. It gives a very good theoretical framework to think about design and how to distinguish good from bad design. It goes also goes into detail on a range of other topics like human biases, the business of design, and the role of feedback and discoverability in design. I took a lot of notes while reading this book and it let me look at design in a very different light.