1. "A friend told me about the time he got trapped in the doorway of a post office in a European city. The entrance was an imposing row of perhaps six glass swinging doors, followed by a second, identical row. " I found it rather funny that the visibility on the door was so bad that the man couldn't even figure out how to work the door. This passage also helped me understand the idea of natural design.
2. I think Norman's work is still influential today even though it was made in 1988 because the problems expressed in his book are still present today. In 2008, we still find flaws in design and usability.
3. Many factors should be put on checklist when evaluating the design of a product: easy to use functions, controls follow our natural mapping, durable, quality and simple.
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