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Article #104Re: Don Norman on The Invisible Computer (Thursday 10/8)
From: Paul Price
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | The MIT Press Bookstore books@mit.edu > ||||||| Massachusetts Institute of Technology fax:617.258.6894 > ||||||| 292 Main Street phone: 617.253.5249 > ||||||| Cambridge MA 02142 > | OPEN: M-F 9-7, NOW Thurs til 8:30, Sa 10-6, Su 12-6 > CLOSED: Holidays & Sundays of Holiday weekends > > Order securely on-line using, VISA, MasterCard, or American Express. > > -----> http://mitpress.mit.edu/bookstore > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10d32b,943371069d94bf82 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d32b,public X-Google-Thread: 104215,943371069d94bf82 X-Google-Attributes: gid104215,public X-Google-Thread: f4739,943371069d94bf82 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4739,public X-Google-Thread: 111f93,943371069d94bf82 X-Google-Attributes: gid111f93,public X-Google-Thread: 100afe,943371069d94bf82 X-Google-Attributes: gid100afe,public From: Paul Price <hnc97s.13@citysun.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Don Norman on The Invisible Computer (Thursday 10/8) Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <362244AC.7CC2E524@citysun.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 400351150 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <books-0710981826430001@situations.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:01:31 BST Newsgroups: mit.bboard,mit.lcs.announce,athena.forsale,athena.announcements,mit.lcs.seminar