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September 1998
6 x 9, 316 pp., 28 illus.
$57.00/£42.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-14065-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-14065-2

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Paper (1999)
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The Invisible Computer
Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution
Donald A. Norman

Table of Contents

Preface

1   Drop Everything You're Doing

2   Growing Up: Moving from Technology-Centered to Human-Centered Products

3   The Move to Information Appliances

4   What's Wrong with the PC?

5   There Is No Magical Cure

6   The Power of Infrastructure

7   Being Analog

8   Why Is Everything So Difficult to Use?

9   Human-Centered Development

10   Want Human-Centered Development? Reorganize the Company

11   Disruptive Technologies

12   A World of Information Appliances

Appendix   Examples of Information Appliances



Notes
References
Index

 
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