GEOE 463 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Don Norman, Environmental Factor, Coevolution
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How to center the design around the users. Design is about a human balance of mental resources without overwhelming them. Not a simple rational thing (much going on: surface things, always a lot more going on than simply trying to accomplish a goal. You can look at your own ways of approaching problems. When designing there are different types of learners. As humans we want to look out at a vast space. Some decisions are made by anthropological reasons instead of logical ones. J. j. gibson: many of the things we do are balancing an ecological factor with goals, don norman went with this idea and looked at everyday things. Ecological physics, perception, link between perception and action: ex. At some point we can"t really separate out all of the learning and culture with affordances and constraints. May tell us what a tool is for: with software not everything is intuitively obvious.