11 February 2008

And now presenting ...

Today I'm thankful for ...

... the Commonwealth Club bringing influential people to public forums. Tonight's presentation was from Donald Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things. I've only read about half of it but what I did read made interesting common sense. Still, when you think about it, what is common sense? What is the science behind making something so obvious as to not require extensive thinking? How do you take advantage of cultural and global customs to infer meaning? How do you make things consistent without making them too much the same?

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