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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

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| Hardcover | 9780672316494

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The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customeContinue

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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

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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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback