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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Robert Fabricant, Cliff Kuang

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

by Robert Fabricant, Cliff Kuang
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Design's silent reign over modern life revealed.

If you’ve ever wondered why technology feels almost like an extension of yourself, "User Friendly" will resonate with you. Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant offer an illuminating dive into the world of design thinking that's shaped everything around us. It's like an origin story for the user-experience discipline that has so subtly influenced our daily lives, making this read both informative and eerily personal.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

by Robert Fabricant, Cliff Kuang
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ISBN: 9780374279752
Authors: Robert Fabricant, Cliff Kuang
Publisher: MCD
Date of Publication: 2021-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Business, Science, Art
Related Topics: Technology, Psychology, Art Design, Design
Goodreads rating: 4.14
(rated by 2555 readers)

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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 principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design. In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change--an underappreciated but essential history that's pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, "User Friendly" provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In "User Friendly," Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time--and you'll never interact with technology the same way again.
 

Design's silent reign over modern life revealed.

If you’ve ever wondered why technology feels almost like an extension of yourself, "User Friendly" will resonate with you. Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant offer an illuminating dive into the world of design thinking that's shaped everything around us. It's like an origin story for the user-experience discipline that has so subtly influenced our daily lives, making this read both informative and eerily personal.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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