Kansas Governor Signs Bill Allowing Pharmacists And Doctors To Deny Women Birth Control
Remind me not to move back to Kansas anytime soon. Scary.
Not yet. Wait until Summer.
Just went on a late-night internet rabbit hole binge with periods of nostalgia, picture-looking, and old-writing reading, and new writing.
9 days.
This is one reason people can function well in their environment and still be unable to describe what they do. For example, a person can travel accurately through a city without being able to describe the route precisely.
People function through their use of two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of and knowledge how. Knowledge of—what psychologists call declarative knowledge—includes the knowledge of facts and rules…Knowledge of how—what psychologists call procedural knowledge—is the knowledge that enables a person to perform music, to stop a car smoothly with a flat tire on an icy road, etc.
” Design of Everyday Things, by Dan Norman, p. 57
Design of Everyday Things, by Dan Norman
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The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
(via: make / laughingsquid)
A mobile library (art car) that’s helping to foster an interest in both reading and sharing books in Argentina? Auto-reblog for Unconsumption’s celebration of book-things during National Library Week.
Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy | TED.com
“In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.” Beauty, function and reflectiveness are the 3 components of emotion as Don describes them. All products need these traits.
Reading his book right now!
