9780374279752-0374279756-User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

ISBN-13: 9780374279752
ISBN-10: 0374279756
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: MCD
Format: Hardcover 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374279752
ISBN-10: 0374279756
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: MCD
Format: Hardcover 416 pages

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (ISBN-13: 9780374279752 and ISBN-10: 0374279756), written by authors Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant, was published by MCD in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Design History & Criticism (Decorative Arts & Design, Industrial & Product Design, User Experience & Usability, Web Development & Design, Social Aspects, Technology) books. You can easily purchase or rent User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Design History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting."
EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been―and continues to be―remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change―an underappreciated but essential history that’s pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time―and you’ll never interact with technology the same way again.

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