Living with Complexity Format: Paperback

Description: Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.

If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem, it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity.

Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools.

Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Intended Audience: General/trade

Book Title: Living with Complexity

Item Length: 8in

Item Height: 0.8in

Item Width: 5.4in

Author: Donald A. Norman

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Social Aspects, General, Essays

Publisher: MIT Press

Publication Year: 2016

Genre: Design, Technology & Engineering, Philosophy

Item Weight: 10.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 308 Pages