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User Friendly is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products – and for the innovators aspiring to make them.It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last forever, while others disappear? User Friendly guides readers through the hidden rules governing how design shapes our behaviour, told through fascinating stories such as what the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island reveals about the logic of the smartphone; how the pressures of the Great Depression and World War II created our faith in social progress through better product design; and how a failed vision for Disney World yielded a new paradigm for designed experience.In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been—and continues to be—remade according to the principl

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Author

Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant

Publisher

Ebury Publishing

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780753551530

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Social & Cultural Aspects Of Technology, Stem

Rating

4.5 / 5 (649 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14