Norman Doors: Why simple things should be simple
Sitting in my office right now, the only ‘not-designed’ thing I can see (aside from people), is a single plant. Other than that… um, the air? The main things that surround me are computers: obviously designed. But even stuff like mugs, desks, and the doors have been designed by someone, somewhere. A door seems like a pretty simple concept; it’s a bit of wall that moves. But we sometimes design them to within an inch of their lives, and make them completely unusable. The other day I went to a small theatre where the entire front wall of the building was...
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