Book Recommendation

I just finished User Friendly, How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work,, and play by Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant and highly recommend purchasing a copy.

The Three Mile Island control panel lights had multiple meanings: fourteen different meanings for red, eleven for green, not to mention the 1100 dials organized without reason or logical association with the reactor and cooling systems. Thankfully, with just 30 minutes to go a new staff member arrived and with a fresh set of eyes took the right steps to avoid a complete meltdown of the core.

The terrible fire at Notre Dame rapidly grew out of control after indicators on the state-of-the-art fire alarm system were misinterpreted resulting in the disastrous delay in emergency response.

Design is both essential and critical. This book has a wealth of examples and concepts richly developed to become a terffic source of inspiration and exploration of new ideas and approaches.