Dear Jonas and all:
The title was changed when the book was published in 1990 as a
paperback edition, not in 1998.
The change was therefore from marketing strategy, but also reflects
comments from readers, etc....
Satoshi Kose
At 16:19 05/11/01, you wrote:
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> > I cannot help but notice that "The Psychology of Everyday Things"=20=20
> > became
> > "The Design of Everyday Things". Is Psychology interchangable with
> > Design? As a field of Design Research, we have to face this tough
> > question.
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>Dear Rosan,
>
>There are certainly tough questions in design research, but I have=20=20
>never thought of this as one of them.
>
>"The Psychology of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman, published in=20=20
>1988, was republished in 1998 as "The Design of Everyday Things" with=20=20
>a new preface. I am pretty convinced that changing the title was a=20=20
>simple market decision: "Design" was deemed to sell better than=20=20
>"psychology" at the turn of the century. I would not take that as=20=20
>grounds for any serious discussion on the interchangability of=20=20
>psychology and design, and I doubt that Norman would either.
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