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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262047950

ISBN-139780262047951

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Book TitleDesign for a Better World : Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

Number of Pages376 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Criticism, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Environmental / General, Decorative Arts

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreDesign, Political Science, Technology & Engineering

AuthorDonald A. Norman

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight24.2 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width9.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-028462

Reviews"Norman's book is admirably ambitious." --Fast Company's Co.Design "Don Norman has worked in electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science and design, in academia and industry. Now in his eighties, he draws on this experience to explain how designers, governments and industry must "broaden the notion of design from human centred to humanity centred". In other words, they must emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards, and reject harmful economic metrics. Only thus, he argues, will we survive the current environmental and economic crises." --Nature "Norman (founding dir., Design Lab, Univ. of California-San Diego; Living with Complexity ) looks out on a world beset by climate change, inequality, and unconscionable waste. Nonetheless, he is optimistic. He believes that humans can change what they've created. Design is the key, for it can mobilize systems to address the complex interface that technologies, policies, and people have." --Library Journal, "Norman's book is admirably ambitious." --Fast Company's Co.Design "Norman (founding dir., Design Lab, Univ. of California-San Diego; Living with Complexity ) looks out on a world beset by climate change, inequality, and unconscionable waste. Nonetheless, he is optimistic. He believes that humans can change what they've created. Design is the key, for it can mobilize systems to address the complex interface that technologies, policies, and people have." --Library Journal, "A brave attempt to expand the scope of what one considers the possibility and responsibility of good design." --Worth "Norman's book is admirably ambitious." --Fast Company's Co.Design "Don Norman has worked in electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science and design, in academia and industry. Now in his eighties, he draws on this experience to explain how designers, governments and industry must "broaden the notion of design from human centred to humanity centred". In other words, they must emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards, and reject harmful economic metrics. Only thus, he argues, will we survive the current environmental and economic crises." --Nature "Norman (founding dir., Design Lab, Univ. of California-San Diego; Living with Complexity ) looks out on a world beset by climate change, inequality, and unconscionable waste. Nonetheless, he is optimistic. He believes that humans can change what they've created. Design is the key, for it can mobilize systems to address the complex interface that technologies, policies, and people have." --Library Journal "Norman (emer., Univ. of California, San Diego) offers a treatise on sustainable design, positing that too much of the world is designed rather than natural. According to Norman, people are surrounded by artifacts such as homes, clothes, tools, and books. This situation projects backward over millennia to hunting and farming existence. People born into this way of living have difficulty thinking of alternatives. Norman challenges readers to change their way of being, recognizing that people, nature, and the environment are a single complex system in which any change to a part might impact the whole. According to Norman's argument, designed things change the way people behave, act, and live: "we design the world, and it, in turn, designs us" . He calls for a mobilization of the many to change the world into one in which success is measured not in money but in the wellness and happiness of all people. He believes the design profession must be rethought and move toward a circular economy centered on recycling through designing for repair, regeneration, and reuse. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and professionals." --CHOICE

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal744

Table Of ContentI Artificial: Almost Everything I See is Artificial 1 1 Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed 3 2 Our Artificial Way of Life is Unsustainable 11 3 Why History Matters 15 4 Precise--but Artificial--Measurements 27 5 If Technology Got Us into Today's Situation, Maybe Technology Can Can Get Us Out 39 6 This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered 47 II Meaningful: Communicate in the Understandable Ways 55 7 The Need for Meaning 57 8 Measurement in the Physical Sciences 63 9 Measuring What is Important to People 67 10 The Gross Domestic Product 79 11 What Measures Are Truly Important to People? 87 12 Human Behavior and Economics 103 III Sustainable: Reverse and Repair the Harm Done to the Ecosystems of the World 113 13 We Live in the Age of Waste 115 14 How Did the World Get into Today's Quandary 119 15 Sustainability Has Multiple Components and Implications 125 16 Design, Products, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy 131 17 The Practical Difficulties of Implementing Circular Design 139 18 Sustainable, Robust, and Resilient Systems 147 19 People's Understanding of Systems 155 20 Working with Complex Sociotechnical Systems 167 21 It Is Not Too Late 177 IV Humanity Centered: Addresses All Aspects of the World Relevant to Life 179 22 Moving from Humans to Humanity 181 23 Democratizing Design and Development 187 24 People Designing for Themselves 195 25 DesignX: An Approach to Large, Complex Systems 203 26 Where Incrementalism (Muddling Through) Fails 209 27 Incremental Modular Design 213 28 When Large, Multidisciplinary Projects Are Necessary 217 29 Dealing with Scale 225 30 Design: Necessary but Not Sufficient 231 V Human Behavior: The Major Challenge 237 31 Why Change is Difficult 239 32 People Will Mobilize for a Common Goal 249 33 What Must Change? 251 34 The Dominance of Technology 265 35 The Future of Technology 275 VI Action: Learn, Reflect, Decide, Act 283 36 What Can Be Done? 285 37 What Can We Do? 291 38 The Major Points of This Book 301 Acknowledgments 311 Notes 315 Bibliography 335 Index 351

SynopsisHow human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth's resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book's three major themes: meaning, sustainability, and humanity-centeredness. Emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards; restructure how we live to better protect the environment; and focus on all of humanity. Design for a Better World presents an eye-opening diagnosis of where we've gone wrong and a clear prescription for making things better. Norman proposes a new way of thinking, one that recognizes our place in a complex global system where even simple behaviors affect the entire world. He identifies the economic metrics that contribute to the harmful effects of commerce and manufacturing and proposes a recalibration of what we consider important in life. His experience as both a scientist and business executive gives him the perspective to show how to make these changes while maintaining a thriving economy. Let the change begin with this book before it's too late

LC Classification NumberNK1520.N67 2023