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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition)

By Alan Cooper

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| Paperback | 9780672326141

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Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, have abdicated their reContinue

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity By Alan Cooper

Beyond nerd chicWe are all nerds now. Or maybe there are no nerds anymore. One way or the other, technology has reached the masses in the past two decades. This sense that humanity's relationship with technology is attaining a certain maturity seems ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

I was clearly not the audience of this book, but it was interesting to read the arguments Cooper uses to 'sell' interaction design to managers.

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Kaeru said on Sep 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

Not so interesting. Ok, software engineering has a lot of flaws, but where is the solution? I cannot agree with someone whose idea of "added user value" is bloatware scanner drivers....

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Lenz said on Jan 26, 2008 | Add your feedback