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Books
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Books, Design
The Design of Everday Things
The seminal work on design philosophy. In just over 200 pages Don Norman details the psychological principles of design. The book was written in 1988, so the examples may be a little dated, but the principles remain the same.
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Natural Mappings
ConstraintsI feel like a switch has been turned. I’m constantly evaluating the design of [...]
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Books, Design
Do You Matter?
A solid read that attempts to dissect the success of design centric companies like Apple and Ikea. The authors emphasize ‘design as a process not an event‘ and the (somewhat clunky) idea of ‘customer supply chain management’. The case study on Motorola was interesting. “Motorola doesn’t have a design culture. It has an engineering culture [...]
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Enjoyable read, though the blogosphere disputes some of Perkin’s stories as too good to be true. Even if he took poetic license with certain details, it’s pretty evident that there’s a kernel of truth to his work. Either way, the historical accounts of US corporate involvement oversees is very well done. Perkins explains the modern [...]
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37Signals
I love 37Signal’s Getting Real:
A great way to build software is to start out by solving your own problems. You’ll be the target audience and you’ll know what’s important and what’s not. That gives you a great head start on delivering a breakout product.
The key here is understanding that you’re not alone. If you’re [...] -
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Armageddon in Retrospect
Well, I’ve worried some about, you know, why write books…why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them.
And it’s been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become [...]
John Bullard
