The Invisible Computer
Publisher: MIT press; MIT Press
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780262140652
Description: In this book, Norman shows why the computer is so difficult to use and why this complexity is fundamental to its nature. The only answer, says Norman, is to start over again, to develop information appliances that fit people's needs and lives. To do this companies must change the way they develop products. They need to start with an understanding of people: user needs first, technology last - the opposite of how things are done now.

Companies need a human-centered development process, even if it means reorganizing the entire company. This book shows why and how.
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: Chapter 1
title: Drop everything you're doing
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Growing-up: Moving from technology-centered to human-centered products
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 3
title: The move to information appliances
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 4
title: What's wrong with the PC?
pagenum: 69; label: Chatper 5
title: There is no magical cure
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter 6
title: The power of infrastructure
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 7
title: Being analog
pagenum: 135; label: Chapter 8
title: Why is everything so difficult to use?
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 9
title: Human-centered development
pagenum: 185; label: Chapter 10
title: Want Human-centered development? Reorganize the company
pagenum: 203; label: Chapter 11
title: Disruptive Technologies
pagenum: 231; label: Chapter 12
title: A wolrd of information appliances
pagenum: 247; label: Appendix
title: Examples of information appliances
pagenum: 263; label: Notes
pagenum: 273; label: References
pagenum: 285; label: Index
pagenum: 291