@solle
- Spreadtweet: for those who want to use Twitter but look like they are sweating in Excel: http://bit.ly/DiYrj
- When #buildingapplications the words 'click through' seem so quaint
- #lab49 hosted #uxshow&tell last night a success (and cosy) looking forward to more
- Does it for me: conference news - in London in May is http://stbride.org/public/events/diydesign /via @maxgadney
- Using Axure feels like trying to wireframe with Windows Explorer
@uxwork
- RT @johannakoll Seedcamp is looking for an intern, cool job if you're into startups. Part-time, paid, London. http://bit.ly/abK4zz
- RT @jasonsantamaria: Typedia is looking for a volunteer Managing Editor/Contributor. This is a writing gig, send samples: http://j.mp/3njCr
- RT @iA: I need guns... Lots of guns... Senior web designer job at iA. No jacket required, but low chance without Japanese working visa.
- Looking for experienced London based IA who can start next week. /via @AndrewsAldridge
- RT @clurr Fjord: 2 x IxD's. Skills: detailed designs, designing for iPhone/iPad & wireframing. Full time 5/8 March - 25/ 26 March.
@london_ia
- Stop Saying 'Innovation' - Scott @Berkun making sense for The Economist. Superb points as usual. http://bit.ly/cgBwHJ /via @darrengeraghty
- 15 tickets left for London IA on Innovation with @andybudd @clagnut @clurr @glennjones http://bit.ly/9j9dxX
- RT @AndrewsAldridge: @london_ia Looking for experienced London based IA who can start next week.
- @fjordaan you need to register on eventwax. We have a max capacity
- RT @solle: 24 tickets left @london_ia on Innovation http://bit.ly/bRQc4s (details here http://bit.ly/bDBxuD)
Suggested reading from The Design Of Everyday Things
Thought it would be useful to put Don Norman’s list of suggested reading from his book The Design Of Everyday Things in a post with links to each book on Amazon (sadly not all the books are readily available but at least one has reference to them and a way of keeping an eye on them whether they become readily available in the future).
Everyday Things
Fernand Braudel’s The Structures of Everyday Life
Charles Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Architectural Design
Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House
Peter Blake’s Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked
Industrial Design
Henry Dreyfuss’ Designing for People
Raymond Loewy’s Never Leave Well Enough Alone
Ralph Caplan’s By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch’s What Time is This Place?
Adrian Forty’s Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750
Witold Rybczynski’s Home – A Short History of an Idea
Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality
General Issues in Design
Henry Petroski’s To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Charles Perrow’s Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies
Robert Sommer’s Social design: Creating buildings with people in mind
Herbert A. Simon’s Sciences of the Artificial
Ted Nelson’s Literary Machines
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
Lucy A. Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication