User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play /
It is a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives, the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Kuang and Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has been, and continues to be, remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design. They m...
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New York :
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The empire of user-friendliness
- Part I: Easy to use. Confusion
- Industry
- Error
- Trust
- Metaphor
- Part II: Easy to want. Empathy
- Humanity
- Personalization
- Peril
- Promise
- Seeing the world through user-friendly eyes
- Appendix: A brief history of "user friendly."