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User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.
EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have cau

User Friendly

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 8 December 2020
      ISBN-13 9781250758200
      978-1250758200
      ISBN-10 1250758203
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK

      FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS'' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK

      User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.
      EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review

      In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

      In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have cau

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