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The Psychology of Everyday Things investigates the relationship between design and user interaction, stressing that intuitive guidance should be embedded in objects to enhance usability. Donald Norman argues that design failures often reflect insufficient user support rather than user error, and offers insights into optimizing user experience through thoughtful design principles.
First publish date: August 1998
Genre: Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Authors: Donald A. Norman
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