Comments on: Tech design with thought

Don Norman, human-computer interaction expert and author, shares his vision for The Design of Future Things.

[inachu]

Much of what we are looking for is not here.

Much of the technology is not here yet to unhinge us and break us away from hand based interfaces.

Eye tracking VS brain reading electronic contraptions will also hit the ethic roadblock.

There are already monitors that transmit a screen directly into the cornea. Cornea burn out?

Future is already here. We just have to look for it.

[haraldf]

Younger people just take the time to learn it!

Brilliant: "Q c|net: Younger people aren't getting it quicker? They
just take the time to learn it?
A Norman: That's what I think."

It's evident, you just never think about it.

We are real fans here ... http://www.felgner.ch/2007/11/don_norman.html

[J.G.]

I recently bought a watch...

because you're supposed to! I had been doing well enough
checking the time on my iPod and more recently on my iPhone.
But, I conformed. I wonder how much conformity has to do with
the traditional tech devices we continue to use.

On the other hand, the Marc Jacobs watch I ordered from Saks
looks a lot cooler than my broken Seiko ever did.

[fred the frog]

technology won't fix bad driving

The application of more micro processors in automobiles won't make people better drivers, they'll just find other things to distract their driving attention. We all thought it was great when "cruise control" came out back in the late sixties. We never imagined that people would use it to read books as they "drove". Engine and transmission tech gets a big "Yes"! Automobile Computers making driving "decisions" is a huge mistake and a costly one at that.