I took a class with Donald Norman and did a work study internship with him. At the time I had no idea who he was and wasn't particularly interested in the clas

I took a class with Donald Norman and did a work study internship with him. At the time I had no idea who he was and wasn't particularly interested in the class. I was working in neuroscience lab at the time and I thought that would be my career direction. He was the head of the Cognitive Science department. The most amazing thing was the way he taught. It was almost all stories and anecdotes. He didn't start with the theory he started with a problem or a situation, often a case study. He used the example as a way to explain the theory or the issue at hand. Ultimately you did read a lot of research or theoretical papers but because you started from a real world problem it was never boring. At the time it was just a class that surprised me by being much more interesting than I expected. Ultimately it was about the most useful class I ever took.