User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live

For our next meeting we will be discussing 'User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play’ by Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant

About the book:
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 been—and continues to be—remade 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 caused our world to change—an underappreciated but essential history that’s pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time—and you’ll never interact with technology the same way again.

Learn more about the book and pick up a copy at: https://www.amazon.com/User-Friendly-Hidden-Design-Changing-ebook/dp/B01HR5DVAQ

Our friends at Flatiron School have offered to host the meeting.

About Flatiron School:
Education should be the best investment you make in your future—and at Flatiron School, we’re committed to helping you learn the skills you need to change yours for the better. Online and on our 12 WeWork campuses across the country and in London, we provide the skills, community, and immersive, outcomes-driven curriculum you need to launch a career in Software Engineering, Data Science, or UX/UI Design.
https://flatironschool.com

Hope to see you there!

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