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Udacity: Don Norman on Creating Online Design Course
Don Norman Design, the discipline, is about the construction of interfaces that match the abilities and needs of people and technology in order to make products and services effective, understandable and pleasurable. Design is also is about innovation, experimentation, about pushing the envelope of what can be done. My book, The Design of Everyday Things, has lived a happy, 25-year life, getting people to look at the world differently, to view the world through the eyes of a designer, to understand why things work and why they don’t. But 25 years is a long time for a book to remain relevant, and although the principles of interaction are unchanged in these 25 years, technology has dramatically changed. Hence, time to update the book, which has been done in the newly revised and expanded edition (published in November 2013). So why not innovate? Allow the world to experience the delights of design? Udacity is a great vehicle, for it too is exploring pushing the bou…