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Re: Don Norman on The Invisible Computer (Thursday 10/8)

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From: Paul Price
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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This looks like a very interesting subject.
Is there any more information to get please.

MIT Press Bookstore wrote:

> authors@mit & MIT LCS Distinguished Lecture Series present
>
> Donald A. Norman
> The Invisible Computer:
> "Why the Computer Industry Doesn�t Work the Way You Think It Should"
>
> Thursday, October 8  3:30 PM  MIT 34-101
> 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
> Info: 253-5249 or authors@mit.edu
>
> authors@mit is a series sponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore
>
> The event is FREE and wheelchair accessible.
> Books are available for a discount the week of the event.
> Professor Norman will autograph books after his talk.
>
> Author of the classic book The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
> has been an executive at Hewlett-Packard and a Vice President and Apple
> Fellow at Apple Computer. He is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science at
> the University of California at San Diego. Norman has just started the
> Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting company that shows companies
> how to follow the lessons of The Invisible Computer. His new book The
> Invisible Computer is published by The MIT Press.
>
> "This book reflects (with an unusual and critical eye) on the past,present
> and future of product design, success and failure, and should be read by
> all those in the IT business. I feel that Don's observation, 'Good
> products can fail and bad products can succeed,' is something more than a
> truism in our industry, it seems to be almost a law. This books brings
> Don's unique view to the fore. A nice provoking read that should not be
> missed." � Peter Cochrane, Head of Research, BT Laboratories, United
> Kingdom
>
> "Don Norman takes no prisoners. His critique of interface design has been
> a relentless questioning of the dubious 'intutions' of technology
> creators." � Brenda Laurel
>
> For more information on The Invisible Computer (including sample chapters)
> visit The MIT Press home page feature  of the month at
> http://mitpress.mit.edu
>
> ALSO: Join us later that evening as The MIT Press Bookstore is once again
> the official unofficial bookseller at the 8th First Annual Ig Nobel
> Awards, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. For tickets: 496-2222.
>
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From: Paul Price <hnc97s.13@citysun.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Don Norman on The Invisible Computer (Thursday 10/8)
Date: 1998/10/12
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