by Tracy Kidder
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Recommended by 5 notable people, including Paul Graham and Bill Gurley
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The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done—just look at today's news for reports of harddriven, highlymotivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of D...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Programming.
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Consider The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Recommended by 22 sources.
“Don Norman turns everyday frustrations into a detective story about flawed design. You’ll start seeing doors, switches, and software through new eyes, armed with concepts like affordances and feedback. The examples are vivid and often entertaining, but the academic prose and repetitive structures can make the book feel more like a lecture than a manual. It can sharpen your design intuition, but it won’t teach you to design anything yourself—annoying if you expected a how-to guide.”
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