Posts Tagged ‘conceptual models’

Spectra of Learnability

In Articles on 22 January 2008 tagged books, communication, conceptual models, Donald Norman, fun, game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, learnability, mental models, play, playful, toys, user experience, UX with 2 comments

They gave us Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things1 to read in interaction design school. I remember reading it and—being young an cocky—finding it all very common sense and “Why do they ask us to read this stuff?” And so on.2 I am rereading it now, in the hopes of sharpening my argument for [...]