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The Design of Everyday Things - Course
- alex_marchant 13y agoCheck out this post for previous discussion and hype about the course https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101815
- _neil 13y agoDon Norman looks impressively uncomfortable in his photo.
- MaxGabriel 13y agoSeems like a really short course. Anyone know why? (Their email says 8 hours; the website says 16)
- mlchild 13y agoJust saw Don Norman speak and he said most MOOC courses are way too long and lose most of their students. Seemed like a reasonable design critique.
- treerock 13y agoI wonder about the design choice of commencing a week before Christmas.
- reledi 13y agoNot a terrible choice. Most people are free from school and work around this time. With the course being short, it should be doable during the holiday break.
- mlchild 13y agoMea culpa for the "ATM machine" error with "MOOC courses."
- henrik_w 13y ago+1 for a short course. Much easier to fit in in a busy schedule.
- mkaziz 13y agoAnd an at-your-own-pace course!
- aaimnr 13y agoThere is another one, more thorough, on coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/hci https://www.coursera.org/course/hci , also based partly on Norman's book. Is anyone able to compare them?
- donquichotte 13y agoI've started reading the book. The self-promotion and anectotal evidence of bad design made it impossible for me to finish it. Nonetheless I'm looking forward to the course.
- SloopJon 13y agoI read the book about fifteen years ago, during my Code Complete bibliography binge. I remember it every time I start the wrong burner on a stove. After the Google-sponsored web game class, I'm a bit skeptical of Udacity's commercial tie-in classes. Loved the AI class that started it all, and really enjoyed Peter Norvig's Design of a Computer Program class, but the Google class? Not so much. Not sure what to make of this class being only two weeks. I guess it's a relatively small investment, even if it ends up being an infomercial.
- treerock 13y ago[aside] What's going on with the Udacity website? I've tried disabling all script blockers and it still isn't working, half the links do nothing. Even getting what looks like AngularJS code showing on the page. e.g. {{hovered}} [update] Seems it doesn't play well with DoNotTrackMe addon.
- reledi 13y agoI'm taking notes for this course, if anyone wants to read them: https://gist.github.com/dideler/8018644 https://gist.github.com/dideler/8018644 I covered lesson 1 tonight.
- dannyking 13y agoNice - thanks for sharing!