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Title: The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald A. Norman
Category: Creativity & the Arts
Have you ever pushed a door that clearly said pull? Sam opens with that exact question, and Sophie admits it happens constantly — which is precisely the moment Donald Norman's classic zeroes in on.
The episode walks through the book's core vocabulary: affordances versus signifiers, the flat plate…
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