July 2nd, 2004
Social Life of Information, chapter 2
Chapter 2 of Social Life of Information is about bots: search bots, product brokering bots, spamming bots, filtering bots, and more. ( Collapse )
Design of Everyday Things, chapters 1 and 2
I've read the first few chapters of Design of Everyday Things often enough that Norman's examples are very familiar: doors that are pushed rather than pulled, phones and watches with too few buttons, remote controls with too many buttons, refrigerators with faulty conceptual modeling. ( Collapse )