@solle
- I just earned the Instamatic Film Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/25NUJ
- @maxgadney my current favourite prison is Bodmin. Cracking brasserie
- Good to read post #dConstruct - Better Than Owning (or usage becomes ownership) http://bit.ly/cUA4Z4
- (obviously) it's just preaching to trolls http://j.mp/dBws3Z
- #dConstruct a pleasure to spend parts of it with @cyberdees @leisa @byekick and @markboulton
@uxwork
- Anyone know any Silverlight developers looking for contract work? Ping @solle or @maxgadney if you have any leads. Thx
- RT @clearleft: Clearleft are recruiting for a senior UX designer so grab one of the team for a chat at @dConstruct tomorrow
- RT @richardsedley: cScape is looking for 2 experienced web creative designers (full time). If you know anyone pls pass them my way. Thanks R
- RT @cvilly: Salesforce, my employer, is growing like crazy & has lots of exciting opportunities for UI designers. Contact me if interested
- 2-3 months UX work starting next week. Ping me for more details
@london_ia
- @solle: (obviously) it's just preaching to trolls http://j.mp/dBws3Z - this response good http://j.mp/bAvYAY + looking forward to @Cennydd's
- RT @gilescolborne: Want to speak at UPA 2011 conference in Atlanta? Get expert advice on writing your proposal: http://j.mp/aYm7QP
- RT @madebymany: Does anyone out there work in #events planning, ideally big events and #festivals? Get in touch, we've got an idea
- agreed RT @johannakoll: Group feedback needs facilitation, either through a person or through tools eg those used for retrospectives
- Thanks to everyone involved last night at our first stab at a workshop. Much to improve but seems like it was a success. Will write up notes
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