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- A door where the design tells you to do the opposite of what you're actually supposed to do.
- A door that gives the wrong signal and needs a sign to correct it.
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- Norman door:
- A door where the design tells you to do the opposite of what you're actually supposed to do.
- A door that gives the wrong signal and needs a sign to correct it.
- Norman doors are named after Don Norman, professor of psychology, cognitive science computer science, vice president of advanced technology at Apple, and the writer of The Design of Everyday Things (original title: The Psychology of Everyday things)
- The two basic principles of human-centered design:
- Discoverability: the ability to discover what operations one can do with a product
- Feedback: A signal of what happened
