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Usability
An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on usability, spanning 1985 to 1988. Featuring works by John D. Gould & Clayton Lewis, Don Norman — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think
John D. Gould & Clayton Lewis, 1985 · Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 3
Gould and Lewis's 1985 paper is the founding document of usability engineering — three principles that remain the practical minimum for designing interactive systems: early focus on users and tasks, empirical measurement…
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman, 1988 · Basic Books (revised edition, 2013)
Norman introduced the concepts of affordances, signifiers, mapping and feedback to a popular audience and argued that when people struggle with designed objects, the fault lies with the design, not the user. The book was…