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by lovskogen 4713 days ago
Don Norman has just released a new version of this book – seems like a smart move to do a course.
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And it's about time for a new version too. I've been reading through the older version of it (2002) and was talking to family about some of the anachronisms of the book - such as Norman remarking at how much easier videotapes are to use compared to film reels, and ending off by saying "but it doesn't matter, because soon there will be no film, only videotapes". I remarked that many examples in this book would be incomprehensible to 20-year-olds ten years from now, who've never dealt with technologies like a VCR or the button-covered phones of the 80s and 90s.

All in all, though, highly recommended.

Good point - could become a new promotional or paid tool for authors. I could see this working fairly well for the Gladwells and Krugmans.
Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) made a similar move with his course on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon