Book Reviews

Sudjic opens the book with an anecdote about his experience purchasing a MacBook at Heathrow Airport. It was an impulse purchase and the author desrcribes in detail how Apple was able to utilize design to make the product enticing, an almost irresistable buy…

The ancient Japanese word for art is Asobi, but it also means game. I think this is how Bruno Munari sees art—not something exclusive to the halls of elite exhibitions, but something exploratory that involves the viewer as much as the artist…

When I set off to write a book review I try to make the review itself valuable even if the reader doesn’t end up reading the book by taking and explaining some of the more interesting and useful ideas. The Design of Everyday Things makes this task very difficult because of the sheer amount of concepts and their interconnectedness that Norman presents…

At the 2006 annual TED conference in Monterey, the New York times columnist David Pogue delivered a presentation about the importance of simplicity in business. The commercial success of Google’s simple search engine interface and Apple’s iPod music player show that simplicity sells…

Steve Krug’s new book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems is essentially a companion book to his first, very successful book on usability “Don’t Make Me Think”. While the first book focused on design, this new book is all about testing…